It’s Just Property
And as is so often the case it will be the marginalized people who will pay the highest price, who already are paying the price
Category: Classic
Old Men in Poorly-Fitting Pants
It’s too horrible to say any of this so baldly, so we find nice ways to phrase it. But that does us no good, recoiling into a cozy bed of euphemisms.
Confederate Monuments Are Everywhere in the South. Why?
Before you protest the removal of Confederate monuments, ask yourself if you know why they were erected in the first place?
An Appalling Lack of Rights: From Inalienable, to meritorious, to “Yeah, but…”
The ideal of “inalienable rights” has too often been changed to “meritorious rights” by flawed people adding “they have rights, but…”
Cities Burning: Stories of Riots from 1992 and 2020
Stories from 1992 and 2020: We’re not “bad” people. But we’re not as good as we pretend, and we’re not holding ourselves to account.
Why Was The 1918 Flu Pandemic Forgotten?
The current COVID-19 pandemic is, in many ways, unprecedented. Joshua Keating at Slate argued that it is the first truly global event, affecting practically the entire world’s population at the same time and in similar ways. Commentators and...
A Letter From COVID-19 Exile
We know full well that we’re asking our fellow citizens to take on a huge burden, but the answer isn’t to shrug it off and let millions of us die.
The Caine Mutiny: A New Reason to Appreciate A Classic
It seems timely, as so many folks are finding their lives upended, that dealing with crisis with questionable leadership is a vital lesson to consider.
Pepperoni Rolls: West Virginia’s Official Food, Not a Hot Pocket
You should try a pepperoni roll sometime if you get the opportunity. Just make sure it is an actual pepperoni roll, and not one of the weak wannabe versions
Maybe Forgiveness After All
How much debt should you legally be able to take on before you can legally drink alcohol?
Speaking of Terror
If certain kinds of violence demand more from us, defining and describing violence becomes charged with power.
Trump’s Useful Idiot
The bully doesn’t really care about his minion; he’s simply a useful idiot. West Virginia is Donald Trump’s useful idiot.
Nondenominational: The Lost Tribe of Evangelicals
The death of evangelicalism has been predicted ever since Nietzsche proclaimed that God is dead, yet the resiliency of the evangelical church surprises secular observers.
