Every day it becomes clearer how important it is to understand the political and economic forces that are getting in the way of addressing the climate crisis. The scientists’ understanding of the crisis is clear. The technological solutions to support human life into the future without destroying the natural matrix we depend on are … Continue reading Anti-capitalism and the Climate Crisis: A review
Advice for Joining the Climate Justice Movement
The reason the world is not making the transition away from the use of fossil fuels at the speed required for human thriving is because of entrenched systems of power. Getting those systems to change will take everything we have. As Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it … Continue reading Advice for Joining the Climate Justice Movement
Consumerism, Sustainability, and Happiness: How to Build a World Where Everyone has Enough
Order Here If you are in San Francisco on May 7th I hope you can come to my book talk at Adobe Books 3:00pm What would it take to have a world where everyone had enough? How can we eliminate poverty, leave enough for non-human nature, and increase wellbeing? This book explores ways the reader … Continue reading Consumerism, Sustainability, and Happiness: How to Build a World Where Everyone has Enough
The Production of Apathy
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Foucault and a Feminist Theory of Difference
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Thoughts on Anti-Capitalist Organizing: Imagining a Way Beyond Revolution or Reform
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The Chasm of the Political in Postmodern Theory
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A User’s Guide to White Privilege
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The Left and the Rule of Law
The recent election called on us to fight hard—and in the streets if necessary—to protect the rule of law and our formal processes of electoral democracy. Did I really just say that I wanted to protect the “rule of law”? For the past four years many of us on the left have found ourselves in … Continue reading The Left and the Rule of Law
Solidarity Forever: Essential Workers, Public Goods, and How We Are in This Together
One opportunity for positive change opened by the terrible crisis we are in with COVID-19 is that people are beginning to question some fundamental beliefs about how society works. There is a chance we can shatter some of the toxic narratives that justify, and lend support to, the brutal systems of inequality, racism, and environmental … Continue reading Solidarity Forever: Essential Workers, Public Goods, and How We Are in This Together
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