Asabiyyah

If you are an organizer or an activist, think about the time you felt most effective, most powerful, most joyful in struggle. Was it alone? Was it in solitude, your face bathed in the artificial light of a telephone or a laptop screen? Was it after finding le mot juste …

For the Nice People

I had to Get Off the Internet this last couple of days because things were getting frankly ridiculous. “Things”, in this case, meant “a mystifying preponderance of liberal/left tone cops flitting around social media finger-wagging at anyone who dared to express, in however ironic a fashion, amusement or pleasure at …