From Myanmar to Mariupol, from the streets of Memphis to the waves and winds of the Mediterranean Sea: resistance to violence takes many forms. So does political protest against precarity….
…a trillion-dollar asset situated at sea level yet somehow immune to the danger that the sea might ever burst its banks. Yet around 8 PM on Monday, October 29 (the…
…1:1-18), this verse has been a call and response litany in my congregation’s mid-week worship for the season of Advent. The light shines in the darkness—and, of course, as we…
…of expression, freedom of association, and protection from arbitrary search and seizure.” Similar “emergency” actions have been taken by the government in Vanuatu and Samoa. The region’s dependency on tourism…
…Where is death? Seek it in Christ, for it exists no longer; but it did exist and now it is dead. O life, O death of death!” [St. Augustine, Sermon…
In this episode, we pull Houria Bouteldja’s 2018 PTN Conference keynote out the PTN vault as a complement to the previous episode’s discussion of Bouteldja’s book, Whites, Jews, and Us….
…violently from inhabitants and spreading disease, displacement, and destruction from sea to sea. In similar ways, especially in recent generations, humans have grown exponentially in our propensity and power to…
On this episode of Assembly, Amaryah and Zac chat with Matthew M. Harris and Tyler B. Davis about their essay “In the Hope That They Can Make Their Own Future:…
On this episode of Assembly, Zac and Amaryah talk with the poet, essayist, and professor Ross Gay about his recent Book of Delights, and the explorations of politics, finitude, and…
…families who left Spain for Cuba in search of a better life. My paternal grandfather, the first Ramón Luzárraga, arrived in Cuba in the 1920s, developed a successful dry goods…
…and death to be experienced in a saturated manner. Advent season is also Autumn season. During Autumn, one sees the open display of resiliency among plants. Trees begin to shed…
In this episode of Assembly, we talk with Adam Kotsko about his reconceptualization of Carl Schmitt’s idea of political theology in his latest book, Neoliberalism’s Demons. We also talk about…