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Did the January 6 attack on the Capitol Building really attempt to overthrow democracy? Jeffery L. Nicholas February 2, 2021 Understanding Accountability: The Case of Police Brutality Cynthia Kaufmann presents a theory of accountability with reference to police brutality Brandon Absher November 17, 2020 On “Wealth” and Whiteness
Why Trump remains the richest (read “whitest”) man in America Grant J Silva November 8, 2020 Counting All Political Prisoners
A proposal to revise our notion of who is a “political prisoner” in the age of mass incarceration Joseph Dole October 9, 2020 A Plea for Realism The Case for Revolution in a Time of Rapid Climate Change Brandon Absher November 18, 2019 The Philosophical Is Political: A Response to Agnes Callard
An argument that philosophers should sign petitions Brandon Absher September 9, 2019 Marcuse’s Relevance Today: Violence, Racism, and the Critique of Pure Tolerance How Marcuse might help us combat violent US culture Charles Reitz August 23, 2019 Is “Intersection” Just a Word We Utter?
A Radical Call for Intersectional Veganism Tanya Loughead June 21, 2019 Burger King Will Not Set Us Free Student Loan Debt as a Systemic Injustice George Fourlas June 12, 2019 Is Our Democracy a Blessing?
How the Enemies of Democracy Come to Power by Electoral Means Richard Schmitt May 22, 2019 Playing Fascist Why You Don’t Have To Be a Nazi To Be a Nazi in the 21st Century Julio Covarrubias April 28, 2019 Bribery in College Admissions
A reminder of the pervasive corruption of American public life Richard Schmitt April 9, 2019 Can Philosophy Survive the Neoliberal Academy? Analyzing the situation of philosophy after the neoliberal redefinition of education Brandon Absher March 26, 2019 Why Moderate Fascists Are Called Populists
What the term today is hiding Richard Schmitt January 25, 2019 RPA Statement in Support of Angela Davis
Angela Davis deserves the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award Brandon Absher January 18, 2019 When the World’s on Fire, Gonna Make a Movie about Democracy A review of Roberto Minervini’s “What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?” and Astra Taylor’s “What is Democracy?” Tanya Loughead January 2, 2019 Socialism in a Time of Rapid Climate Change: Reflections on the Green New Deal
An argument that socialists should support the Green New Deal Harry van der Linden December 28, 2018 What Do You Think about Prisons? A primer on mass incarceration and the purpose of prisons. Richard Schmitt December 10, 2018 Soulless Capital
Why attempts to create a “moral capitalism” are misguided Clayton Morgareidge October 4, 2018 Blackkklansman: A Philosophical Review A philosophical review of Spike Lee’s new film, Blackkklansman Joshua Mills-Knutsen October 4, 2018 Labor Day 2018
Our Country Has Lost Its Way and Is Drifting Without a Plan Richard Schmitt September 16, 2018 Structural Racism Why structural racism does not exonerate individual Whites from responsibility for the injustices suffered daily by Black Americans. Richard Schmitt August 21, 2018 The Humanist Argument for Socialism
An introductory discussion of socialism and how to avoid co-option. Brandon Absher July 29, 2018 Conversations about Politics
A reflection on political disagreement, respect, and democracy Richard Schmitt July 20, 2018 The Only Reasonable Philosophy of Migration is a Radical Philosophy of Migration A vision for a radical philosophy of migration. Alex Sager July 2, 2018 Disagreeing and Blaming
On the complicity of philosophers and others in Trump’s family separation policy. Richard Schmitt June 27, 2018 Civility and Repressive Tolerance in the Trump Era An analysis of the contemporary meaning of civility. Brandon Absher June 27, 2018 Against the Trump Administration’s Attack on Migrants and Asylum Seekers
Trump’s family separation policy must be connected to legacies of racism and genocide and the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers must be defended. Elvira Basevich June 20, 2018 Trump’s Changes to Refugee Policy: Nativist Biopower A Foucauldian analysis of Trump’s refugee policy. Steve Tammelleo June 19, 2018 Gun Control, Abolition, and Transformative Justice
A radical Left response to gun violence Brandon Absher June 4, 2018 Guns and Steel Don’t Kill, People Kill
Aimé Césaire, Jared Diamond, and the Contradictions of Empire James Maffie May 14, 2018 Online Misogyny and the RPA Mag Commenting Policy Should the RPA Mag allow open comments? Tanya Loughead April 30, 2018 An Orgy of Hypocricy
Why “nice nationalism” is just as bad as it’s vulgar twin Richard Schmitt April 29, 2018 Crimmigration Why criminal convictions should NOT have immigration consequences José Jorge Mendoza April 25, 2018 On the “White Working Class”
Why “nice nationalism” is just as bad as it’s vulgar twin Brandon Absher March 28, 2018 What Price Greatness? Our military expenditures do not “make America great” but impoverish us at home where education, health care and other essential services fall to the level of an underdeveloped country Richard Schmitt March 21, 2018 The RAISE Act: Protecting First-World Privilege via Strategic Racism
The new immigration legislation will not achieve its ostensible goal. The criteria it proposes for new immigrants thinly conceal its racist motivations. Grant J Silva March 6, 2018 From “Homelands” to Humanity Right-wing preoccupation with a “home,” defined through exclusion of undesirables, yields counterfeit community. Joan Braune March 4, 2018 Keep America White Again An examination and critique of the central myths behind Trump’s immigration policies. José Jorge Mendoza February 18, 2018 Not Another Left-Wing Publication!
An example of how RPA Mag can be used to further undergraduate teaching. Richard Schmitt February 18, 2018 In Love with Hopelessness: A Letter to Comrades Regarding the Women’s March A critique of “conservative leftism” and masochistic purism. Tanya Loughead February 18, 2018 |
