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As ambitious as it seems, I am about to deliver a Unified Field Theory about why your uncle is acting like a complete jerk, or alternately, why racism has reared its ugly, naked head in this very intense moment of American life. Strap in, and go review Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, Richard Pryor, Dave Chapelle, and a …
After Ferguson, it would be easy to think that police departments around America would be on notice to radically improve performance and to bring their every action in line with the rule of law. After all, the events of 2014 were a national embarrassment which has led to federal investigations, a stream of lawsuits, and a new social movement that …
There is a cultural and political question that Americans are asking: How could the corruption and abuse detailed in the Department of Justice report on the Ferguson Police department have gone on under our noses? How could a police department conduct themselves in such a lawless manner for so long without it coming to some authority’s attention? Beyond the moral …
I have witnessed the future of leadership in the Twitter timeline of Charles Wade. Mr. Wade, who goes by @akacharleswade, has been a leader and chronicler of the Ferguson movement since the very beginning. Today, he had a salvo of blistering critiques for Oprah Winfrey after she made the following statement as to her lack of involvement with the justice …
In the wake of the failure to indict the police who killed Eric Garner, I wanted to talk about the role of violence and the legitimacy of the nation-state, but instead I need to talk about Chuck D and Ice Cube. By way of background, I was a young teenager in the late 1980s living in the town of Rutland, …