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    • Solidarity Economics: Building Sustainable Social Relations
    • Consumerism, Sustainability, and Happiness: How to Build a World Where Everyone has Enough
    • The Sea is Rising and so are We: a Climate Justice Handbook
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    • Getting Past Capitalism: History, Vision, Hope
    • Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change
    • Desiring Reason: Reason and an Unavoidable Discourse of Desire
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    • Racism, Capitalism, and the Climate Crisis
    • The System Will Not Solve the Climate Crisis Without a Push: That’s Where You Come in
    • We Can Solve the Climate Crisis Without Worrying About Population
    • Who Funds the Climate Crisis?
    • Investing in Destruction: California Teachers Pension Money Should Not Be Funding Line 3
    • A Just Transition to a Fair and Sustainable Society or Healthy Green Growth?
    • Anti-capitalism and the Climate Crisis: A review
    • Motivating Climate Action: A Review of Per Espen Stoknes “What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming.”
    • Creating a Home through the Green New Deal A review of Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth
    • Fighting for the Climate: A Note from Post-Apocalyptic California
    • Advice for Joining the Climate Justice Movement
    • Climate Action: Disrupting Business as Usual
    • Mobilizing Climate Action in the Face of Planet of the Humans
    • Is Reinvestment a Good Strategy for the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement?
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    • Ten Ways to Challenge Capitalism’s Death Grip on Daily Life
    • Alternatives to Killing People for the Economy
    • Breaking Our Dependency on the Old Economy as We Build the New
    • The Fortress World of Capitalism vs. the Beautiful Possibilities of Cooperation
    • Making beautiful things where everyone gains and no one profits
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    • Jewish Safety and the Weaponization of Antisemitism
    • It Is Time to Build a World Based on Solidarity
    • On Safety, Comfort, and the Importance of Speaking Out
    • 7 Rules for Narrative Discipline in the Time of Trump
    • Pro-Palestine Allies Need to Speak Up for Israeli and Palestinian Lives
    • Freedom: Challenging Domination or License to Dominate?
    • Rethinking Freedom, Government, and Expertise in the Time of COVID-19
    • Facing Our Other Crises With Lessons From COVID-19
    • Belonging and Social Change: A Critique of the Politics of Wokeness
    • Holding onto Your Humanity in Solitary Confinement
    • Why Include Study of the Holocaust in Higher Education
    • Counterhegemony
    • Making Rights Work
    • Thinking about Fascism
    • Bring Back Pell Grants for Prisoners
    • Building Democracy to Fight the Nativist Attack: A Review of ‘The People vs. Democracy’
    • Owning Our Shit: The US Role in Global Migration
    • It May Actually Be Worse Than You Think: Assessing the Integrated and Funded Machine We Are Up Against
    • Unicorns, Gnomes, and Plea to the Press on Covering Trump
    • An End of Power?
    • Making Rights Work
    • The Left and the Rule of Law
    • Nonviolence as a Strategy for Protecting the Election Results
    • Preparing to Protect the Election Results
    • Solidarity Forever: Essential Workers, Public Goods, and How We Are in This Together
    • Understanding Accountability So We Can Hold the Police to Account
    • Facing Our Other Crises With Lessons From COVID-19
    • Getting out of this Mess by Building support for Economic and Social Justice
    • White Supremacy won the Election
    • White Supremacy won the Election
    • On Surviving the Trump Years with Our Spirits Intact
    • Healthy News Habits
    • Empowered Students Transforming Colleges: Civic Engagement as an Equity Strategy
    • Don’t Mourn, Organize…and Vote
  • Articles
    • Taking Political Power From the Fossil Fuel Industry
    • A User’s Guide to White Privilege
    • Is Philosophy Anything if it isn’t White
    • Thoughts on Anti-Capitalist Organizing: Imagining a Way Beyond Revolution or Reform
    • Empowered Students Transforming Colleges
    • Overcoming Faculty Fears of Civic Work
    • Knowledge as Masculine Heroism or Embodied Perception: Knowledge, Will, and Desire in Nietzsche
    • The Unforced Force of the More Familiar Argument: A Critique of Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Rationality
    • The Chasm of the Political in Postmodern Theory
    • Should we Ask if Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
    • Foucault and a Feminist Theory of Difference
  • Consumerism, Sustainability, and Happiness: How to Build a World Where Everyone has Enough
  • Advice for Joining the Climate Justice Movement
  • Bridges to Another World: Call for Book Proposals

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November 24, 2020June 9, 2021 Cynthia Kaufman education

Why Include Study of the Holocaust in Higher Education

I wrote this as a response to a workshop I went to on teaching about the Holocaust, and thought it would be good to share. Our current students are living in a time of an assault on democracy all around the world. Democracy has not been in such danger since the 1930s. There are so … Continue reading Why Include Study of the Holocaust in Higher Education

March 15, 2019June 10, 2021 Cynthia Kaufman civil rights, criminal legal system, education, human rights

Bring Back Pell Grants for Prisoners

When I was in working on my PhD in philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, I paid for part of my education by teaching in prison. For me it was an incredibly rewarding experience. It was great working these students who had time to read and think, and wonder in the deep ways … Continue reading Bring Back Pell Grants for Prisoners

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