I have now been doing this blog, with an increasingly haphazard publication schedule, for two years. The pace of writing has slowed considerably as I have taken on more administrative duties in my department, where I am now undergraduate program chair and the principal academic advisor, tried to buckle down and refocus some effort on … Continue reading Two years and some links
Tag: Politics
Don’t worry about the government
I have not written much here lately. The end of the fall semester and beginning of the winter semester have, in short, been kicking my ass. This is fine, I think; I have been busy but productive and, unlike those people I know who work in the US federal government, I have still been getting … Continue reading Don’t worry about the government
Voting from afar
This is a short tale about my voting experience this year in the US general election, scheduled for November 6. I reside and work in Canada, as I have for more than 14 years now, but I am still a US citizen, registered to vote in Kentucky, as I have been since I was 18 … Continue reading Voting from afar
Elite spaces and bodies
Over the past few days, the Senate confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the US Supreme Court has dominated news coverage in the US, and made its way to international news outlets and discussion. A lot of digital ink has been spilled in discussing the process, the nominee, the multiple allegations of sexual assault … Continue reading Elite spaces and bodies
Trumpland 3
It should have come as no surprise that when Senator John McCain died on August 25, media coverage would be replete with paeans to his legacy, his statesmanship, his status as a war hero. Reading these, one would think that instead of the fiery and often unpredictable 'maverick' of the Senate, the man who repeatedly … Continue reading Trumpland 3
Trumpland 2
At the end of my last post, I started to build an argument that the politics advanced by and through the Trump administration are in part a fulfillment of his campaign's economic populism and nationalism. At this point, a year and a half into Trump's (first?) term as President of the US, it is somewhat … Continue reading Trumpland 2
Trumpland 1
On June 26, the US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to uphold a 'travel ban' targeting several Muslim-majority countries, put in place via executive order in September 2017 and immediately challenged through the courts. While the more liberal justices on the Court argued that this travel ban violated the First Amendment right to religious liberty and … Continue reading Trumpland 1
