Abortion, which has long been a flashpoint in American politics, has once again taken center stage for both political parties. As the midterm election nears, the abortion issue is very likely to become a driving force in organizing and activism on both sides.
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The Florida legislature periodically considers laying the groundwork for a purge of academics of whose political leanings it disapproves. Usually, such nonsense dies on the vine.
This year, it s apparently gaining momentum. So at the risk of redundancy, I had to break out the annual wow, that is a spectacularly bad idea post.
An unimaginably long time ago, I was a graduate student in normative political theory, also known as political philosophy. It wasn’t necessarily one of my better life choices, but I didn’t know that at the time. My small and scrappy group of peers and I tried to blast our way through the canon of Western political thought from Plato to NATO, as we said then along with the then-current layers of interpretation. I had to learn to do battle with Benjamin Barber on Rousseau, with Stephen Eric Bronner on Habermas, with Linda Zerilli on Judith Butler, with Jackson Lears on Eugene Debs, and with Carey McWilliams on John Dewey. (Peers