Uncategorized “All history is retrospective” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 January 2017 All history is retrospective. We’re always looking at the past through the lens of...
Uncategorized “…criticizing people based on what they don’t say is lousy, and more often leads to the rhetorical performance of politics than actual meaningful organizing” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 October 2016 I think the business of criticizing people based on what they don’t say is...
Uncategorized “My mother believes that injustice is the normal, unchangeable state of things” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 August 2016 My mother believes that injustice is the normal, unchangeable state of things. My mother...
Uncategorized “…worryingly, the study of trauma has both a dubious intellectual history and an abysmal track record…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 August 2016 The murky science of risk assessment relies on attempts to quantify “trauma” and “adversity,”...
Uncategorized “…these two clusters of values entail different conceptions of victims” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 August 2016 …these two clusters of values entail different conceptions of victims. Proponents of individualizing values...
Uncategorized “Even austerity can be made decadent: To wealthy practitioners, minimalism is now little more than a slightly intriguing perversion…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 August 2016 “Minimalism” was eventually canonized as an art-historical movement, but the name came to mean...
Uncategorized “Part pop philosophy and part aesthetic, minimalism presents a cure-all for a certain sense of capitalist overindulgence” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 August 2016 Despite its connotations of absence, “minimalism” has been popping up everywhere lately, like a...
Uncategorized “The fetishized austerity and performative asceticism of minimalism is a kind of ongoing cultural sickness” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 August 2016 There’s an arrogance to today’s minimalism that presumes it provides an answer rather than,...
Uncategorized “Victim blaming appears to be deep-seated, rooted in core moral values, but also somewhat malleable…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 August 2016 Can anything be done to change people’s perceptions of victims and perpetrators? In another...
Uncategorized “Programs for the poor are poor programs. And they are made poorer when they fail, and when they are needed most” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 June 2016 Programs for the poor are poor programs. And they are made poorer when they...