@jsanbonmatsu
Writer, critical theorist, and professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Author of "The Postmodern Prince" and of "The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and Ourselves." www.JohnSanbonmatsu.com
"Pronatalism, a Conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin--Nandita Bajaj, Michele Goodwin, and Shoshanna Ehrlich"
Ask a Feminist is part of the Feminist Public Intellectuals Project.
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I have seen a shocking decline in my own students' thinking and writing abilities in the last two years, accompanied by a loosening of their moral scruples. Students are not only being cognitively deskilled, they're being morally deskilled too.
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For years, Hadden "sexually assaulted hundreds of patients" at Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital--but "reports of his misconduct went nowhere when mentioned to staff members," who feared "challenging the institution’s hierarchical culture."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/n...
"These are not signs of a democracy under threat," writes @eric-reinhart.com. "They are symptoms of one that eroded – if it ever existed – long ago."
"Why, then, does American political discourse remain fixated on a catastrophe that always seems imminent but never quite arrives?"
Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn
Thank God. But will Trump pardon them? I would not be surprised in the least.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
The correct word is Stammlager or "Stalag."
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"To my Palestinian sister in ICE detention – I will carry you until you are free" -- Mahmoud Khalil
"One year ago, ICE arrested me for protesting for Palestine. Leqaa Kordia is still caged – also for daring to speak the truth"
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Pleased to see Patricia Arquette calling out the racism of Tarentino's work. Her and Uma Thurman's interventions may finally tarnish Tarentino's undeserved reputation as a master. Tarentino's films are entertaining, reactionary, and intellectually vacuous.
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
MAGA supporters love that Trump left his hat on. Because they love him precisely for his irreverence and vulgarity, his contempt for conventional norms and decorum. Even if God were suddenly to appear on earth, Trump would keep his hat on.
Hegseth's generation grew up playing first person shooter video games--which is maybe why he thinks and talks like a platoon leader in Call of Duty.
Yes.
The wealth and power of Epstein's circle of abusers:
“The weekend I was in Miami, there was a person following me, a person following a survivor in South Africa who was in my book, and a person following a survivor in the UK. Just so that we all were aware.”
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Even before Trump, we lived in a simulacral democracy owned and run by the billionaire class.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
"'War opens neither a door to reform nor a horizon of liberation.' Apocalyptic scenes of bombardment...mothers huddling with children in shaking bathrooms and a school obliterated...are the most terrifying episodes in a string of devastations."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...
"A Trump Order Protected a Weedkiller. Citing national security, an unusual executive order gave protection to the herbicide Roundup."
Yes, the same herbicide that causes leukemia and has led to the deaths of billions of bees from Bee Colony Collapse syndrome.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/c...
The US and Israel are inflicting terror on a city of 9 million people.
"Thick black smoke...rising in the sky, soot covered the streets and cars, balconies filled with black gunk, and the toxic air had filled the lungs as Tehran woke up."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
I guess you mean MAGA.
The @washingtonpost.com at this hour: secret US intelligence report concludes that US war on Iran won't lead to overthrow of the regime. All this violence, mayhem, and international chaos is meant to serve only three narrow interests: (1) Israel, (2) Trump's masculine ego, and (3) the arms industry.
Highly recommended!
"Humane Hoax Online Conference 2026"
Tuesday, March 17
10:00 – 12:00 pm PT
via Zoom
www.humanehoax.org/the-humane-h...
Increasingly common misogynist trope of the far right--mocking opponents for "clutching their pearls" (i.e., as upper class/elitist, timorous, effeminate fops). The malignant MAGA base loves this sort of thing.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...
Trump admin war propaganda to reach young Gen Z men: "a series of hype videos that aggressively, and tastelessly, show off deadly combat footage from the strikes on Iran, sometimes in combination with footage from fictional movies and video games."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Gaza is now the Israeli and American model of neocolonial expansion and control: Terror through advanced missile technology replaces rule through soft power and consent.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
"Juanita, a 47-year-old legal permanent resident, had her green card in her pocket, but officers handcuffed and detained her."
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"William Bejerano, who once tried to start an anti-abortion group at Miami Dade College, was the most prolific user of the N-word. Bejerano called for dozens of acts of extreme violence against Black people, including crucifying, beheading and dissecting."
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