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Sunday at 4:00 at the west virginia statehouse because we need to put a face on this and not just numbers. >> it is hard. whether its this or voting rights, its hard for low-income folk and people who live in poverty to take that time out. its a privilege for us to protest and get out there. you have warned we must not discount these people. very think of them voiceless so we talk around them rather than to to them. they are a voting block. they are powerful. if they are rejected, they will reme...

Theory of the Novel Instructors: Armstrong and Garréta Intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduates who want to pursue some area of novel, fiction, or narrative studies, this course examines a set of concepts that should provide them access to 1) the modes of thinking that characterize novels across the modern and contemporary periods and several different national traditions, 2) the various ways that critical theory has defined those concepts, and 3) reading the novel as a con...

Fyodor Dostoevsky, painted in 1872 Credit: alamy Few episodes in fiction can be as hauntingly terrifying as Dostoevsky’s account in The Idiot of what it feels like to face a firing squad, only to have the sentence commuted just as the guns are cocked. Based on the author’s own experience after he was convicted of revolutionary subversion in 1849, it’s a moment that Alex Christofi selects as the opening of his “intimate” biography of the novelist, and it should set the temperature for ...

Dostoevsky in Love by Alex Christofi review – unpredictable, dangerous and thrilling Frances Wilson © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Peter Kovalev/TASS The first time he fell in love, Fyodor Dostoevsky was in his mid-30s. He had written two famous novels, Poor Folk and The Double, been arrested for treason, suffered a mock-execution, and served four years of hard labour in Siberia. He was now, in 1854, serving as a private in the army and the object of his desire, M...

If you are adistricted that shouldnt be a criminal offense. if your kid is on drugs you dont say im giving you 27 years in prison. that will make it better. but we do that to poor folks kids. almost only to poor folks kids. when you combine the fact that you have to have a lot of money when you get in trouble to get out of trouble no matter the underlying facts and the fact that the penalties for drug offenses are so long thats why you have so many people behind bars. >> youve been working with ...

The drug problem as a health issue like most countries. if you are adistricted that shouldnt be a criminal offense. if your kid is on drugs you dont say im giving you 27 years in prison. that will make it better. but we do that to poor folks kids. almost only to poor folks kids. when you combine the fact that you have to have a lot of money when you get in trouble to get out of trouble no matter the underlying facts and the fact that the penalties for drug offenses are so long thats why you have...

Medicaid, not to touch medicare. thats what i dont understand completely the disconnect between what the president thinks of this and where republican leaders are. it just does not seem to me this is a bill that this president ran on in 2016. >> its not. you can go down the list of the promises donald trump made, and its just objectively you can line them up here and everything he promised to voters in wisconsin, michigan, ohio, and pennsylvania hes violated with these bills. and on top of that,...

Get a reasonable budget thats not targeting people who suffer theer deepest. not creating a budget that puts profits over people. >> tucker: rather than getting to motive, why dont you say, look, the snap program for example, which you support, and i think it is fair to say, we shouldnt cut this and heres why. instead of making gross generalizations about peoples ethnicity and skin color, and evoking the shared memories of persecution, which you are doing on purpose, say, look --bo >> this is pe...

And in the 60s when bobby was killed he was trying to hold together that demolition coalition of working class people in both groups, white and black. >> he was. at least based on his rhetoric and appeal, i think he was doing a great job. the coalition he was pulling together 82 days into that campaign. unfortunately he lost his life. the coalition he was pulling together is the coalition that essentially re-elected president obama minus the working class white folks who have broken more towards...

Military industrial complex and the ways in which we think about the military and how that gets politicized between republicans and democrats and how white folk break from the conservative party. for some reason, all of the new deal policies in the entire social safety net have been very effectively designed to people of color, black folk, and immigrants, as opposed to the very, very real sort of population of poor folk who live in the south who are white also who use social services. theres bee...