Ten Things I’ve Learned from Studying Parler’s Far Right

A genocide prevention expert lays out her thoughts after examining the activity of the far right on Parler. 1: Expose the Lies Without Feeding Persecution Narratives People believe, many quite genuinely, that they are freedom fighters defending the constitution against an evil, global cabal of elites who also comprise the deep state in America. The […] Read more

What is Our Moral Responsibility Towards Animals?

As humans we have the power to affect the lives of entire species of animals. What moral responsibilities do we have towards them? Animals cannot be held morally responsible for their actions. However, that does not mean that they don’t have moral worth. In fact, it is reasonable to infer that we, as rational beings, […] Read more

India’s Anti ‘Love-Jihad’ Law – Regressive and Misogynist

The paranoia among India’s Hindu Right about ‘Love Jihad’ reflects age old patriarchal notions of women as the property of men. The planter class which had entrusted its wives and daughters to male slaves when the masters went off to fight the Civil War was now in near hysterics over the slightest interaction between white […] Read more

Clark v. State Public Charter School Authority, et al.

The full PDF of the Clark v. State federal lawsuit is available for download here. Clark-v.-Nevada-Complaint-12-22-2020 This is a U.S. federal lawsuit alleging that a school and related entities violated a high school student’s and his mother’s First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to speech and privacy (among other claims) by requiring the student to publicly […] Read more