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“The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.”

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As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

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All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people…

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The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense…

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History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

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I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy.

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Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,…

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