The Case for Creating a National Lustration Commission for the United States

It’s a way to stabilize fragile democratic institutions

_____ The  storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob on January 6 has made it clear that a surprising number of police and military veterans are currently affiliated with armed right wing militias. But suspending and firing a few police officers and soldiers in response likely won’t suffice. And any mass ...
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The Case for Creating a National Lustration Commission for the United States

White Men Running (For President)

The DNC’s nostalgic embrace of familiar, and obsolete, white male leadership

“Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romance with one's own fantasy.”  Svetlana Boym, “Nostalgia and its Discontents.” In this 2020 Democratic primary reality TV season, Biden, O’Rourke, Buttigieg, and Sanders all seem to be performing different facets of a kind of idealized white male type. ...
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White Men Running (For President)