“Don’t Look Up” in 2025: Predictive Precisions and Ongoing Omissions By Christiana Zenner Yule: “I don’t know, I’m starting to think that all this ‘end of the world’ stuff is bullshit.” Kate Dibiasky: “It’s not. It’s definitely happening. I’ve seen it.” –Don’t Look Up (2021) “I’m curious to hear what it’s Read more
The Misery that Will Come: Notes on the 2024 US Election By Marcia Pally When you strike a tuning fork, for a moment you hear not only the odd A-note designed for musical instruments but also an atmospheric suspension. The air’s sub-atomic particles, hovering. That was election day 2024, a Read more
Eroding Democracy By Whitney A. Bauman In the state of Florida, we have what is called “the sunshine law.” This law was initially meant to curtail corruption at the state level government. As a state employee at Florida International University, for instance, under these laws my salary and all salaries Read more
Divide and Rule: How the Growing Rift between Peace, Climate, and Social Justice Movements Is Cementing a Ruinous Status Quo By Fabian Scheidler Environmental and peace movements are profoundly divided in many countries today. The Covid crisis and the Ukraine war have further deepened these divisions. Since the Russian invasion Read more
The Delusion that Only Individuals are Real By John Thatamanil Am I responsible for America’s racist past, even though I myself immigrated to the US from India when I was just eight years old? My parents had arrived two years before. What do my family and I owe to Read more
Florida Is Burning: A Call for Connective Knowledge Systems By Whitney A. Bauman During the post-civil war era, there was a struggle to begin to define an “American” history. As you might imagine, those in the former confederate states and those in the former union states had differences about what Read more
Aborting Rights By Catherine Keller In my May 2022 blog for Counterpoint, I was reflecting on how collective crises like the war in Ukraine, a global pandemic, and (often racialized) threats to democracy inescapably distract from the mounting, world-encompassing catastrophe of climate change. All these matters rightly demand and dangerously Read more
Independence or Interdependence Day? By Bron Taylor Some Europeans came to North America to gain religious freedom. Those who declared independence from England sought freedom from authoritarian rule. Yet these people participated in the genocidal deracination of the continent’s first people and the kidnapping and enslavement of scores of human Read more
Do We Live in the Same World? Some Reflections on Polarization By Susannah Crockford When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade last week, it seemed like the United States was divided in two once again. Supporters of legal abortion despaired at the harm done to health, economic opportunities, and Read more
Decree of Death By John William Bailly Throughout history, art has been critical to the sociopolitical narrative of society. It has been used as a tool of power by governments and religious institutions, as a method of propaganda, and as a means of protest. A chronology of art becomes a Read more