by Andrue Kahn | May 21, 2026 | Abolition, Antisemitism, Jewish history, Judaism, Op-Ed, Religion, Shavuot, theology, Zionism, Zohran Mamdani
In the recent U.K. elections, voters widely rejected the currently ruling Labour Party. Commentator Aditya Chakrabortty credited Labour’s resounding loss to three things: “Gaza … racist [anti-Muslim] Home Office policies, and then finally housing and cost of living.” Some voters swung their support to the far right Reform Party, led by Donald Trump ally Nigel Farage. But the U.K. Green Party…
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by George Yancy | Apr 21, 2026 | anti-Blackness, Christian nationalism, Christian Nationalists, Christianity, Donald Trump, Iran, iran war, JD Vance, Op-Ed, Pete Hegseth, Racial Justice, Religion, theology, Trump Administration, War, war in Iran, whiteness
As a philosopher, I am known for bringing a deeply uncomfortable truth to bear upon the hegemonic, hierarchical, and privileged embodied reality of whiteness. My aim has been to shape a critical discourse and produce a body of philosophical writing that reveals the ways in which whiteness functions as a mask, as a veil, to cover over the history of its violence. It does this through acts of denial…
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