30 Dec, 2022
Unity in the community, or, how I learned to get along with my enemies
For years I taught a graduate class, Identity Conflict, and I would begin the term by noting that trying to...
30 Dec, 2022
16 Jul, 2022
White supremacists want ‘their’ country back
One thing I notice as I read the growing warnings that this is the case is the assumption that suddenly the USA has become a divided nation...
29 Mar, 2022
A modest proposal for peace in Ukraine
Maybe, as the human world stands at the brink of possible nuclear annihilation given the antiquated launch on warning system of Russia and its 2,000 “small or tactical nuclear weapons” that Putin may have to “use or lose” depending on the fog of war, it is time to actually consider an “equal protection of the law” approach to resolution.
7 Mar, 2022
Saving Ukraine, saving lives, saving ourselves
I teach nonviolence. Students ask, so, okay, and just how could Ukraine possibly resist Putin and a brutal invasion using nothing but nonviolence?
20 Sep, 2021
Free Speech and Press
Free speech and free press mean the same thing: the right to voice any beliefs or ideas, even unpopular ones -- orally or on paper -- without fear of being punished for it. Sometimes it’s called freedom of expression...
6 Aug, 2020
Counter-coup
“Gene Sharp called it a self-coup. Sharp was arguably the most influential theorist in the field of nonviolent social movement...
27 Apr, 2020
America’s Pact with the Devil
“You know you are in a dark place when you must cite Adolf Hitler to support your side of the...
8 Jul, 2018
Coarse culture resurgent racism
“From calling Mexicans rapists and animals to calling the one African American at one of his rallies “my African American,”...
4 Nov, 2016
The Kapp Putsch and Modern Memory
“On March 13, 1920, right-wing elements of German society along with some military units, particularly the Freikorps, or volunteer corps,...
21 Dec, 2015
Trump vs. Sophie Scholl: Lessons in Courageous Resistance
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18 Dec, 2015
What the Women of Berlin’s Rosenstrasse Protest Can Teach Us About Trump
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17 Dec, 2015
The Danes Save More Than 7,000 Jews . . . Would We?
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