Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies. Author of The Struggle to be Gay—in Mexico, for Example (2024), and other books. Opinions are my own.
Washington, DC
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Trump Elevates Stephen Miller, Mounting a Washington Production of Saló
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Populist messaging won big on Tuesday. Woke posturing was nowhere to be seen. But watch for fringe types to come out of the woodwork and take credit, claiming a victory for open borders, prison abolition, and race reparations....
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Let NC be a warning to aspirant gerrymanderers. You thought you had created 10 R districts while trapping the Ds in 4, but in doing so, you diluted your margins in your own districts. In the end, the Ds took 10 districts and w/ luck, you might end up with 4 by razor-thin margins.
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¿Qué significa “ser gay” cuando las condiciones materiales de la vida vuelven esa identidad precaria, desigual o incluso irrelevante? .....
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La lucha por ser gay. Ya disponible en el sitio web de la editorial. Próximamente en librerías y puntos de venta en línea. Se presentará como adelanto en la Feria del Libro de Guadalajara a finales de este mes.
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¡Ya disponible! Próximamente en librerías y otros puntos de venta en línea. ¡Se presentará en la Feria del Libro de Guadalajara a finales de este mes!
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Gina Hinojosa explains why she doesn’t call herself a liberal or a progressive but a populist: progressivism is associated with culture wars, and is not up to the challenge of our time. Populism is about economic power and is up to the challenge.
This contentious interchange between the NY Times and @GinaHinojosaTX was truly amazing. Hinojosa offered one of the best explanations of populism I've ever seen. Her comments were a total rejection of Corporate Dems' neoliberal formula. Her Texas victory is a game changer.
Spinmeisters will be telling us what it all means over the coming days. Tamping down identity politics & ramping up economic populism moved the dial in key swing and even red states. But “less drama, sturdy organizational structure" performed exceedingly well in NC and GA.
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Todd Cronan, 4:30 PM Eastern. Are deception and hypocrisy the keys to understanding the state of affairs today?
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Lula Won. The apocalypse is postponed for another four years. Can Lulaism regroup, reconsolidate, and find a way forward?
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A well-known left sociologist commented to me last summer that the Vanderbilt Report would blow over -- unless we circled the wagons and attempted to mount a collective response to it. I'm beginning to think that he was right.
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At a time of recurring sex panics and ongoing moral freakouts, you should all see this prickly and provocative play.
(I wrote an essay for the London National Theatre production's Playbill and also helped publicize the DC Wooly Mammoth production.)
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"Beginning in 1926, a little-known Polish political economist named Henryk Grossman gave a series of lectures at the University of Frankfurt in which he argued that the era’s great productive forces had been built on a fatally unstable foundation."
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The Brazilian election serves warning to the Left almost everywhere. Address economic stagnation, crime, and a general sense that nothing much can be changed -- or continue losing working-class voters to rightwing demagogues.
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Fifteen years old and still relevant:
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Writing is thinking, disciplined by logic and grammar—with a chance to revise and polish the finished product. Verbal utterances rarely reach the same level of precision and finesse — unless the speaker’s thoughts have been nourished by writing.
The head of the philosophy department at Williams College downplays the pedagogical value of writing:
“What if we are mistaken in treating writing as the highest cultivation of thought? The evidence that supports this belief is thin at best. Writing can be useful cognitive scaffolding for memory and self-regulated learning, but the notion that it is the best process for developing thinking skills is a fairly recent idea, traceable to the 1970s writing-across-the-curriculum movement.”
She's too often a self-referential verbal train wreck. She'll have a hard time walking away from past excesses (abolition, defund, open borders, expansive race reparations)..... There are reasons why she's poison at the polls.
Axios: Some Democrats in other close races have explicitly asked Ocasio-Cortez's team to stay away, party officials told Axios.
"The polling is atrocious for her," said a senior Democratic strategist working in a key swing district. "She's a lightning rod."
If they continue, the snubs could hurt AOC's standing as a potential contender in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary, when many voters will prioritize electability.
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