In “The White Christian and His Conscience,” Lillian Smith breaks down the ways that religion, specifically Christianity, works to maintain power and how it causes individuals to lose their conscience, causing them to live, ostensibly, with the warring teachings of Jesus and the white supremacist society they exist within. Smith, also, presents readers with analogies between Southern white Christians and Nazi Germany, at one … Read More We Must Transform the World!
+ August Landmesser, Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz, holocaust, József Debreczeni, martin luther king, jr, world war ii
In Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz, József Debreczeni provides a detailed and graphic recounting of his time in Nazi concentration camps during 1944–1945. While in Eule, Debreczeni speaks with other individuals about the ease with which people fall into savagery, becoming part and parcel of the atrocities, violence, and murder enacted against their neighbors. Debreczeni contemplates how people who have given the … Read More How Do Individuals Descend Into Brutal Savagery? Part II
I am extremely anxious, but I have hope and I keep remembering we have been here before. We’ve had Eugene Talmadge here in Georgia. He was a fascist and racist. We had Father Coughlin. We had Gerald L.K. Smith. We had Charles Lindbergh. We had Joseph McCarthy. We’ve had . . . Our generation, going back to Kennedy, has not had this form of existential crisis that … Read More No Matter What Lies Ahead, I Maintain Hope
As I began discussing in my previous post, Project 2025 will have a damaging impact on individuals’ access to higher education. This has been a long standing goal of conservatives, as Fabiola Cineas points out at Vox. The goal is to limit access to universities and to return them, in many ways, to places that will, as Lauren Lassabe Shepherd mentions when speaking with Cineas and describing … Read More What Does Project 2025 Say About Higher Education?: Part II
+ chronicle of higher education, donald trump, higher education, higher education in America, JD Vance, project 2025, university
As he worked, over the past few weeks, to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Donald Trump announced that Senator J.D. Vance would be his running mate for the 2024 presidential election. Likewise, since his nomination, Vance has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, even though a month ago he posted about writing the foreword for the President of the Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts’ new … Read More What Does Project 2025 Say About Higher Education?: Part I
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