Last Thursday evening, when I realized that I had approximately twenty-four hours before I would be locked out of my office, my email account, my Blackboard courseware account, and the webservers at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, I started emailing the...
“What do you do with an institution [police] whose core function is the control and elimination of black people specifically, and people of color and the poor more broadly? You abolish it.” Thus writes Mychal Denzel Smith, echoing James Baldwin’s anguish some 50 years...
We New Yorkers are prideful people, proud of our city and proud of ourselves for making it our home. As life in New York can often seem like a daily test of one’s mettle, to regularly wake up in the city that never sleeps qualifies as an accomplishment. But a city...
In ‘Welcome to the Agora’, JS Biehl tells us of his first brush with philosophy. It’s a lovely image, the image of this 10-year old boy walking down the street and having a great philosophical revelation. I imagine him wearing a baseball cap and whistling like Ron...
I was no more than ten years old when, walking home from school, I had a philosophical epiphany: everything exists. The thought struck with the force of a revelation and was utterly unlike any previous experience of learning some new thing (even something...
