“When underlying conditions are already suffused with politics, doing nothing can itself constitute a political act”
Change, of course, is inherently destabilizing. It upsets an existing state of affairs that...
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“For Democrats, the politics of race and class are fraught”
For Democrats, the politics of race and class are fraught. If you focus insistently...
“When you insist on obligations in addition to rights, you empower people”
Why limit ourselves to the few words in the BLM platform that have to...
“The history of the ‘Black-Jewish alliance’ is, of course, much more complicated than the narrative evoked by the march in Selma, and its ambiguities provide some helpful context for the current controversy”
Tensions between Jewish liberals and black radicals are, of course, not new. It was...
“While American Jewish leaders will use the platform to distance themselves from Black Lives Matter, the movement provides a lesson for how we will eventually reconcile our commitments and rescue our moral integrity”
While American Jewish leaders will use the platform to distance themselves from Black Lives...