Speak Out for Freedom of Expression (While We Can)
The rise of book banning in schools, libraries, and bookstores, and what we can do to prevent it.
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A Regime Party Portrayed: The Weissensee Saga
A discussion of the German TV series Weissensee and what it can tell us about this moment in the U.S. today.
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Our Fight Is Their Fight
Having newborn babies in the family has made us think of their future, what kind of world they’ll grow up to live in. Jonah and Reed were conceived during Derrick...
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Plebiscite
Seeing the 2020 election not as a contest between two presidential candidates but as an up-or-down vote on democracy itself.
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Last Week’s News: Surviving Santiago as a Cautionary Tale
Thinking about the themes of Surviving Santiago in the wake of two incidents of political violence in the U.S. in the past week.
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