7 Takeaways from “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Last night I watched Judas and the Black Messiah. I’ve read a lot about the Black Panthers and other 1960s …
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A tip for managing unwieldy essays
I’m a big fan of dumping my ideas onto a piece of paper when I’m writing an essay. It helps …
Sometimes it seems so little has changed
It makes sense that Camilla Hall’s letters to her parents became more political in 1968, one of the most tense …
Radical moves gain attention
I’m excited to watch this movie about the trial that resulted from the 1968 protests at the Democratic National Convention. …
Frustration that leads to violence
We have seen recently how years of frustration can boil over into violence. Today’s domestic terrorism threat comes from the …
Don’t dismiss female revolutionaries
Female terrorists have generally been thought of as only going along because someone (a man) has lured them in. But …
The allure of the 1970s
“The idea of ‘loosening the self’ not only underpinned specific 1970s enthusiasms—for jogging, natural foods, voluntary communities, and the geodesic …
A look at the far-left in 2020
The Symbionese Liberation Army was one of many leftist radical organizations that appeared in the United States in the late …
I’ve now shot a gun…
I took a gun safety class over the weekend. I knew a few people who were doing it and I’m …
Roxane Gay on moving to the left
This section in Roxane Gay’s Nov. 5 New York Times column made me think of the manuscript I’ve written about …
If You Have Five Seconds to Spare 