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Indeed, I will argue that liberty in the broad sense requires judges and officials, when applying legal principles, to assert norms of reasonableness. Otherwise, self-interested people will use law to claim almost anything.

Philip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society

Even if, for a while, I feigned hatred of rock and roll, that only made sense on the presumption of its continued reign. Much the same could be said about liberal democracy. Today, American global hegemony looks like nothing more than a desperate reprisal of a role that must be ceded sooner or later; gone is the possibility of taking it for granted... See more

Justin E. H. Smith • My Generation, by Justin E. H. Smith

glasses, I went from thinking it was strange that we don’t see dead bodies anymore to believing their absence was a root cause of major problems in the modern world. Corpses keep the living tethered to reality.

Caitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

white supremacy,

Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation

newsworthiness rarely brings destroyed White bodies to the front page of the newspaper.

Teju Cole • Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)

I’d protest that this book has never been about opposing the New York Times but about pursuing the same mission to which the paper is dedicated—unearthing the truth. But no matter how wholehearted it was, the strength of that argument could not overcome an evidently widespread fear of the cultural and political behemoth that is the New York Times.

Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

Native American beliefs are fundamentally rooted in ideas of a multi-layered and ever changing reality. Because reality is ever changing Native Americans have no conception of normal and conversely have no concept of abnormal. It

Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)

The eccentric, glorious French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau had, in the eighteenth century, laid the grounds of discontent with modern civilisation by denouncing it as a destroyer of the ‘authenticity’ of human beings.

Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine

Paradoxically, many of these disciplinary policies are akin to the progressive vision espoused by eugenicists like Karl Pearson, justifying harsh discipline as a means to “close academic disparities.” Schooling becomes standardized testing without creative expression, arbitrary rules without room to breathe, Black Excellence without Black Joy.