In her new book Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune, Kristin Ross argues that a rich legacy of ideas and practices developed during the Commune – the workers’ democracy th…

2020 is shaping up to be a year in which gun control is a major political issue. First, with all of the nonsense in traditionally pro-gun Virginia. Then, with the current front runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination, Joe Biden, saying that he wants Beto “hell, yes, we’ll take you’re AR-15s” O’Rourke to be his […]

Over a century ago people never thought the Irish would make upstanding Americans citizens.

1. A lady named Concepcion Picciotto protested in front of the White House for 35 years, the longest continuous act of political protest in the United States.

The best political, social and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others. Carl Gustav Jung

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Today's Guest: Jeanne Martinet, author, The Art of Mingling, Life is Friends Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Jeanne Martinet by clicking on the video player above! Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of unfun and unproven mingling techniques who are becoming more than a little nervous… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! When Jeanne Martinet told me she had rewritten and revised more than 50 percent of her 1992 guide, The Art of Mingling: Fun and Proven Techniques for Mastering Any Room, I had to admit I was

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I’ve spent the whole last week going through all of my belongings on a tidying up spree, a la the KonMari technique. If you’ve not read “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” get yourself a copy. It’s beautifully written and wonderful to follow. The final step of the KonMari technique is to go through all your “sentimental items” such as keepsakes, mementos, souvenirs, childhood items, photos, and old letters. In going through these things, I came across a shoebox full of letters I’d exchanged with friends in 4th through 12th grade. Eagerly but tentatively I opened the long forgotten box. Real letters! Gosh, I feel old just admitting that I grew up in the early days of email when we still also sent real letters too. What treasures! (and a whole lot of silly nonsense not worth saving). An 11th birthday card from my grandparents. A drawing of a horse from a friend during 6th grade. The funny notes my best friend and I passed back and forth one day in church in some unknown year during elementary school. There were letters from several friends from school who moved away to far off states. Min, Dawn, Jenny (I’d completely forgotten about Jenny!). Also from friends who had never lived close. Abigail, Rosemary, Laura. But then I found the one letter that haunted me for years and years. When I was 16, and my distant friend was 14, I received this one of so many letters. We’d been friends for four years, since Girl Scout summer horse camp where she rescued me from spiders and I her from lizards and the scary night sounds of the forest where we spent a week sleeping under the stars. In those carefree days, we’d bonded over our love of horses and the general goofiness of girlhood. We would visit each other often, despite the hours of driving that our parents had to cross to treat us to a weekend together. But then hard times came for her. Her father committed suicide. Her torn family moved to a bad neighborhood, where gangs roamed and illegal drugs were as easy to get as a Hershey’s bar (or so it seemed to me, from my own sheltered life). In this envelope, there were two letters. “Read this one first!” And “Read this one second!” The second one was written first, and as I read them both (in the instructed order of course) I could see the second was basically a draft for the first. Although she did not write it with that intention, I could see the thoughts of the first which meant the most were expressed again in the second. This sad, sad letter that occupied a place in my mind for so many years... In both versions, she began by imploring my forgiveness and understanding. That she was not “a bad influence” as she was sure my parents would tell me, and “don’t hate” her for what she did. Because, as she explained, it was not her choice. What was this bad thing that she feared would end our friendship that had lasted a quarter of my whole life thus far? She had been raped. She explained to me in the letter that she had lost her “V” as she put it, by a former boyfriend who forced her and then beat her. They were broken up by the time she wrote. I remember being frightened for her when I read it, and I still regret not telling anyone. Clearly she was worried that if my parents found out they would not let us be friends. But I knew this was the sort of thing you were supposed to tell your parents about, because they could help. I never told a soul. But I worried about her for 14 years - while we were still in contact, and for the dozen plus years when we drifted apart, until we reconnected several years ago (when she was the very first to call me after I escaped my abusive husband and help ME see it was not my fault). Now, reading that letter again, it made me sad in a different way. That this young girl felt such shame of what had happened to her, and feared she would be blamed for it. That she thought it was going to make her “a bad influence” and that it might jeapordize our friendship. These fears may not have been realistic, but they were not unusual. This is a reaction I have heard from so many victims of domestic violence and of sexual assault. And it is so very sad that these victims must deal with such fears on top of the other traumas (emotional and physical) of what they have experienced. I know of no solution except to talk about it. To express these things so others know that they don’t need to fear these reprocussions. So they can be assured that we all know it is not their fault.

A little boy has questions for his dad, then explains politics perfectly after he catches his dad sleeping with the nanny - funny jokes

This September, the OUP Philosophy team honors Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) as their Philosopher of the Month. Wollstonecraft was a novelist, a moral

A speech with compassion and forthrightness — imagine that.

Dr. Curtis Hancock TO TELL THE TRUTH: Talking Across the Disciplines by Curtis L. Hancock One of the scandals of modern academic bureaucracies is that knowledge, its nature and objects, is a subject educators are loathe to discuss. In fact, it is something of a taboo subject.

Nimrod Who was he? Was he godly or evil? by Bible archaeologist Dr. David P. Livingston, Associates for Bible Research Originally established by Nimrod (Gen. 10:11), and today known as N…

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Talking about George Orwell's 1984, and the book within the book, is always interesting. But this semester the discussion took some turns that seem

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Brexit—a British exit from the European Union—would give the U.K. self-determination and free it from the dysfunctional European project

This Comic Series Perfectly Explains The Need For Intersectional Feminism. Artist Talhi posted this on her Tumblr account in response to a media moment.

This freebie is a reminder that sometimes I-messages can be tricky because they can often come off as blaming and accusatory. Just because a sentence starts with "I" does not make it an assertive, non-defensive I-message. .Assertiveness means expressing your point of view in a way that is clear and ...

How to avoid Life & Get away from Suffering Forever. ~ Waylon Lewis We can not defeat the problem by avoiding it—or conquering it. We can only defeat a problem by making friends with it. Take s...

We've all heard the phrase 'the banality of evil.' Some of us even know which political theorist to attribute it to, and among those, a few have even read it in context.

The small printed sheet was used to promote Pasqua Rosee's wares at what is believed to be the capital's first coffee shop, in St Michael's Alley, Cornhill.

Oligarchy, government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes. Oligarchies in which members of the ruling group are wealthy or exercise their power through their wealth are known as plutocracies.

New York Ratification of the Bill of Rights On September 25, 1790, by joint resolution, Congress passed 12 articles of amendment to the new Constitution, now known as the Bill of Rights. The Treaty of Kanagawa On March 31, 1854, the first treaty between Japan and the United States was signed. The Treaty was the result of an encounter between an elaborately planned mission to open Japan . Whistler's Survey Etching One of the known works completed by Whistler during his brief federal service, "Sketch of Anacapa Island," 1854.

Artwork by Ai Weiwei, and shown at the Lisson Gallery (13 May - 16 July 2011). Ai Weiwei is an internationally regarded artist. Born in 1957 to a Communist poet, Weiwei works in film, sculpture, photography as well as making social and cultural criticism. "He serves as an example for legitimate social criticism and free expression both in China and internationally" (Lisson Gallery biog) 3 April 2011, Weiwei was arrested by Chinese authorities, ostensibly on tax-fraud.

Samuel Younge Jr., Navy vet, Tuskegee student, activist was killed in Alabama for using a “whites-only” bathroom. SNCC issued a powerful statement about his murder and in opposition to the Vietnam War.

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For "traditional marriage" it sure has changed its definition throughout history. But some things never change. Namely bigots, who always sound the same.