Teachers in plenty of poorer inner city communities are at once told they need to be cognizant of their students’ emotional needs and able to sympathize with them, and that they must rule their classroom with an iron fist. Can you imagine yourself trusting someone Read More …
White men seem angrier than usual. And we are, as a group, prone to anger. It’s one of the few emotions we’re allowed to express by the patriarchal apparatus of self-policing that rules us all. I kid, but not really. Men haven’t been granted permission Read More …
I was a first year offensive linemen playing for a mid-major state school in central Illinois. In hindsight, there are all sorts of signs, if you’re willing to look for them, when you can understand better how playing sports at the collegiate level was destined Read More …
I’ve never worked harder to rally people around a candidate in all my life. Bernie Sanders was and — truly, in some ways in my mind — remains my ideal candidate when it comes to discussion of the global economy and America’s failure to provide Read More …
So you’ve allowed the scales to fall from your eyes, swallowed the red pill (but not in the creepy, /r/redpill-Richard Spencery way), decided to exhibit empathy for other people and the restrictive circumstances that define their existence in American society. You now see that the Read More …