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Articles tagged with politics
A recording of our event featuring Noam Chomsky, Sally Abed, Omar Dahi, Alon-lee Green, Congressman Jim McGovern, and Dr. James Zogby, President of the Arab-American Institute.
Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always under the threat of U.S. empire.
Final response: Humility is more than a personal attitude. It should be a collective practice.
Making the issue a matter of personality traits can distract us from the historical and material origins of our present crisis.
Why do we fail to predict—and even more importantly, prevent—social and political crises?
Combatting the West’s pandemic self-interest requires humanism in addition to humility.
When it comes to bad choices, humility may not be the right solution.
The United States ranked first on health security; then came COVID-19. In place of technocratic hubris, we need robust new forms of democratic humility.
Critiques of vaccine mandates continue a neoliberal tradition of idolizing private choice at the expense of the public good.
