Don’t Normalize Murder: Dallas Filicide

The Dallas Morning News has a piece on parents, as they age, contemplating murdering their adult kids. Explaining away these murders as understandable, however, promotes the notion that it’s a reasonable act. The risk of contagion with such reporting is high. Reporters: read ASAN’s anti-filicide kit before writing about filicide, please. And if you are going to … Continue ReadingDon’t Normalize Murder: Dallas Filicide

Koch on Campus: ASU Version

Around the country, the Koch Brothers are donating to universities to create right-wing-only counter institutions within more open institutions, creating precisely the kind of ideological bubble they claim to deplore. Here’s the latest from Arizona State University. I served as the director of the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University … Continue ReadingKoch on Campus: ASU Version

The Right Wing on Campus

They’re coming for your student government. “The American right, aided alas by far too many allegedly centrist writers, keep attacking left-wing academics for what the right wing is actually doing. Right-wing provocateurs and their violent supporters are what’s threatening free expression on campus—not safe spaces or trigger warnings. Christian schools make students worship the flag … Continue ReadingThe Right Wing on Campus

#AbolishICE: Man with Down Syndrome Threatened with Deportation

ICE detains man with Down syndrome and plans to deport to Guatemala. He has no family there, as they all live in Florida. Arrested on his job site. Came here at 14 when his mom died. #AbolishICE #AbolishICE #AbolishICE #AbolishICE #AbolishICEhttps://t.co/oXCAJ2f0Lb — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) April 18, 2018 I am so angry. There are … Continue Reading#AbolishICE: Man with Down Syndrome Threatened with Deportation