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The purview of the Rittenhouse Trial is not new
Are you familiar with the Reconstruction & Post-Reconstruction periods? It feels like Post-Reconstruction now, around 1911. Reconstruction was between 1865 and 1877. It was a
The utility of imaginary numbers and why we need to teach history in our math classes
In grade school and junior high, I was pretty handy with math. I was even part of my high schools enormous math team. But in
The War Isn’t Over
The morning of September 11, 2001, I stalled in my parking spot at the California high school where I had just begun my tenth year
The lie of help, the story how the government helped kill people by saving them from alcohol
From 1893 to 1933, the Anti-Saloon League was a major force in U.S. politics. Influencing the country through lobbying, newspapers, and pamphlets, it turned a
Individualism won’t stop COVID-19, we need better policy than “wear your mask.”
If we keep painting the COVID-19 pandemic as an individual issue, we are allowing the government to abdicate its social contract. The government exists for
The scam of sexism & racism explains the low payoff for Master’s degrees
There has been talk lately regarding the utility of the Master’s degree, some say it is an outright scam. Has there been a feminist or
None of this testing is necessary, it is all a function of racism
All standardized tests in K-12 are eugenics. They are summative tests that entire point is to excuse the ranking, categorizing, and punishment of historically excluded
A conversation with Dr. Hart
Public Intellectuals Teka Lo speaks with Dr. Carl L. Hart. He is psychologist and neuroscientist. He is a professor of psychology at Columbia University. Hart
Class and race are intertwined, race is a class conversation, but we all know that
I just cannot agree with this line of thinking. In readings about the splits in the Communist Party in the 20th century, the big split
Abolition is not about Bill Cosby or Derek Chauvin
Abolition is to decriminalize Blackness and free Black people from situational oppression. The U.S. allowed white people to enslave Black people in their homes, plantations,
and then