I received the following email today in response to my post I’m Christian, Unless You’re Gay. I had decided a couple months ago that it was time to let the whole thing rest, but this response was so powerful, I … Continue reading
FOREWORD BY DR. ROBERT JENSEN, UT-Austin. In my Foreword to the book, I try to identify some of the key limitations of the contemporary media system and emphasize the importance of this work to the project of deepening democracy. Does … Continue reading
“A specter is haunting Eastern Europe,” the Czech playwright Václav Havel wrote in 1978, “the specter of what in the West is called ‘dissent.’” In echoing the opening salvo of the Communist Manifesto, Havel was thumbing his nose at the … Continue reading
Once the last major Occupy camps had been razed by police forces, pundits began to crow that the movement was finished. Of course, once it became clear that thesis was not grounded in reality, the professional ponderers went on to … Continue reading
So now the U. S. Supreme Court says you can be strip-searched by the State Security Forces (formerly the “protect and serve” local police) for running a red light,camping or eating in a taxpayer-paid-for “public” park or space after 10:00 … Continue reading