Politics & Society
The Movement and the State
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Bridging Two Forms of “We”.
Justice for All
More on the Trial of the Chicago Seven
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How a trial can move social energy toward hope.
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Amy Coney Barrett’s Originalism as a Denial of the Moral Bond That Connects Us
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Supreme Court nominee Amy Barrett’s Misguided Judicial Philosophy.
35.1 Spring/Summer
Getting Off the Marxist Dime
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Peter Gabel argues it is time to let go of the notion that the economy is something separate from us and instead see it is a manifestation of fear of the Other.
Politics & Society
The Political Meaning of Bush v. Gore Today
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Peter Gabel helps us understand what we can learn today from the battle for the presidency between Bush and Gore in 2000.
Politics & Society
Fear of Humiliation as the Root of Racism
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Peter Gabel explains how fear of humiliation is at the root of racism.
Politics & Society
The Bioenergetics of Authoritarianism
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Peter Gabel helps us understand why a social change movement must create and sustain a feeling of deep connection to each other and to the experience of being recognized by each other if it is to have any chance of success.
Justice for All
Demonizing Iran During the Coronavirus
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When Pompeo seeks genocidal action against Iran, what undermined his humanity?
Politics & Society
Don’t Walk On By
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Peter Gabel argues for an activism that breaks through the mutual distance that separates us and helps create a movement in which each of us becomes more fully recognized by “entering into each other’s presence.
Politics & Society
DEMOCRATS: Offer Real Community to Challenge Trump’s Imaginary Community
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Peter Gabel argues that Democrats must engage in a “positive and visionary communitarian politics” to compete with Trump’s imaginary MAGA community.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Coopting the Beatles
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Peter Gabel argues that, in coopting songs from the 1960s, advertisers not only increase their profits but also strip the songs of their transcendental sense of meaning and purpose.
Politics & Society
Anatomy of a Trump Supporter
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Peter Gabel argues that Trump supporters are not voting against their interest “but rather that their interests are different from what the critics think they are.”
Politics & Society
Spiritualizing Socialism, Part I
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Peter Gabel argues that the new socialism so popular among today’s emerging generation not only rejects capitalism as a system but rejects the idea of systems altogether.
The Gradual Acceleration of Fascist Violence: “Cloudy Sunday’s” Portrayal of The Extermination of the Jews in Thessaloniki
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In this review of “Cloudy Sundays,” Peter Gabel highlights the common ground between fascists and the indifferent majority: “a common flight from their true social being as grounded human persons seeking the love and affirmation of fellow humans.”
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The Trouble with Brett Kavanaugh
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Peter Gabel on Brett Kavanaugh and the dangerous, collective hallucination of interpreting The Constitution using the “original intent” theory.