What did you expect?
“Aggressively hate-free” political & other writing from professor, mom, mediocre comedian, & proudly Jewish person. Chonky dog photos too.
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There is a culture war within academia split between "resistance" and "reformer" camps
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Precarious Progressivism: Gatekeepers stand in judgment of a coveted label
I should take bets after writing this essay how long it takes for someone to say I’m not “a real progressive.”
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I had to learn Christian theology in an American hospital while anti-Zionists criticize Israel as a religious ethnostate.
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In school I was taught that the United States has separati...
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