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People’s vaccine against mutating virus and neoliberal rule     Teachers and students were able to return to school in Lao Cai, Viet Nam, in May 2020. — UNICEF A RECENT Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that worries about the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States are at their lowest level since it began. Only half of Americans are either ‘very worried’ (15 per cent) or ‘somewhat worried’ (35 per cent) about the virus, while the other half is ‘not very worried’ (30 per cent) or ‘not worried at all’ (20 per cent). But the news from around the world makes it cle...

THREATS TO INTERNATIONAL LAW AND WORLD ORDER Weaponized drones are probably the most troublesome weapon added to the arsenal of war making since the

My research focuses on American political thought, contemporary democratic theory, and feminist theory. My hobby is making functional ceramics. Book: Sheldon Wolin and Democracy: Seeing Through Loss (Routledge, 2020) Website: https://lucycane.com/ Experience

When Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition first appeared in 1983, it was far from an instant classic. Aside from a couple of extended reviews that focused on Robinson’s critique of Marxism, most academic mentions were cursory, hardly bothering with the more challenging aspects of his argument. Coming as it did on the heels of Black Power–era debates over whether Marxism was appropriate for Black struggle, movement intellectuals did engage and debate the book. However, its reception among this crowd was complicated by the fact that it didn’t wholl...

Imagine driving down a dirt road through a garden filled with flowers. You might feel compelled to “stop and smell the roses,” as the saying goes. This garden, though, is different. When you step out of the car, smoke fills the air, and you realize that the roses are on fire. All of them. But we cannot fathom saving every rose; we’ve been told that it’s not possible to do it all. Instead, we grab one rose from the edge of the garden and extinguish the fire that once engulfed it. Holding that one saved rose, we feel a sense of normalcy and content. But the garden is still o...