And my own looming job crisis.
Rebecca Gordon
Rebecca Gordon is the author of Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States. She teaches in the philosophy department at the University of San Francisco. She is a member of the War Times/Tiempo de Guerras collective. Contact her through the Mainstreaming Torture website.
ALL POSTS BY Rebecca Gordon
December 17, 2020Can We Finally Stop Marching to Disaster?
November 8, 2020After four years of running in place, November 2016 seems like a lifetime ago. The United States of 2020 is a very different place, at once more devastated and more hopeful than at least we were a mere four years ago.
July 24, 2020The pandemic has exposed certain deep and unexamined assumptions about the nature and value of work in the United States.
December 19, 2017The whole world burns while Trump satisfies his ego and his need for attention.
June 28, 2017For many Americans, the meaning of war is closer to reality TV than it is to reality.
May 26, 2017Living in Trump’s United States of Amnesia.
March 7, 2017When did we start to think of the president as commander-in-chief first and executor of laws a distant second?
January 10, 2017As we fight against a president elected by a minority of voters, we fight for a country in which we can take part in the decisions that affect all aspects of our lives.
September 28, 2016Since the founding of the United States, government at every level has tended to make unpopular behavior illegal — and that hasn't always made it stop.
