The Irony of MLK Day 2013: A Renewed Invitation into White Supremacy
I wonder how many consider today to be a magnificent symbolic coincidence rather than a Manichean irony: today, we commemorate …
Tag Archives: US Politics
The Deaths of Innocents: How to Understand “Collateral Damage”
Today, TransEx guest blogger Robert Prasch weighs in on the moral debate over the ethics of US-led drone strikes and …
Election Day 2012: It’s the Day After That Matters
Update I below: This past weekend I talked with a philosopher friend about her conundrum over how to vote in …
Why do “Third Parties Never Work”? Collusion and the Presidential Debates
Regardless of what you thought of the first round of 2012 presidential debates, the spin job began well before 8:30 …
White Privilege, the Dems, and the Rhetoric of “Care”
To read some of the exchanges over the last week in the blogosphere, apparently “white privilege” means that one doesn’t …
Race, Murder, and Mayhem in America: Considering the Links
Glenn Greenwald is right to be skeptical of any direct causal links between the horrific events such as the Sikh …
Guest Post: On Voting Strategically in 2012: The Ultimatum Game
Today, I’m putting up another guest post by Robert Prasch, analyzing the “ultimatum” politics of the Democratic Party, more specifically, …
Election Year Redux
When it rains…2 posts on Translation Exercises on the same day! This one, by me, follows on the heels of …
Guest Column by Marcellus Andrews: “About What is Coming Down the Road”
Today’s column is by one of Translation Exercises guest bloggers, Marcellus Andrews, who recently appeared on Up with Chris Hayes …
Where is Their Refuge in This World?
Once they had left their homeland they remained homeless, once they had left their state they became stateless; once they …
Guest Post: “Where is My Half Glass?”
The brilliant Robert E. Prasch, an economist at Middlebury College, reflects on the Obama Presidency. President Obama, Where Is My …
Voting Model #3: The “Lesser of Two Evils”
This one gets trotted out around March of every election year. And around March of election year, I stop reading, …
Voting Model #2: The “pro-choice/environmentally friendly” vote
In this post, I continue down my list of problematic presidential election voting models. Today’s model, #2 on that list, …
Indefinite detention: Business as usual. What now?
Yesterday marked a new low in the history of the lows of the Obama administration. After months of threatening to …
