The Rise of Skywalker’s Activist Historian
Beaumont Kin is a good example of how those within the profession should embrace the activist historian mantle in our own time and in our own, very real world.
Category: Media and Reviews
Review: Frozen 2 Calls Us To Reject Empire Capitalism
Western wealth was taken, not by innovation and ingenuity, as we have long told ourselves, but by “murder, mutilation, and downright robbery.”
The Joker We Need Lies Beneath The Capitalist Clown We Have
We need a Joker who rejects the crumbling capitalist order, not one who reinforces it.
Book Review: How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi’s much-anticipated second book, How to Be An Antiracist, hit shelves across the world last month.
Did Sasse Go to Class? Review of Historian and US Senator Ben Sasse’s The Vanishing American Adult
Despite claiming a national scope for this problem, Senator Sasse’s The Vanishing American Adult mainly applies to upper class white Christians, thereby exposing an arrogant idealism that is closer to neoliberal fantasy than reality.
Review: The Crown and Decolonization
It is important to recognize The Crown is not about decolonization directly; it is fundamentally a drama about internal palace tensions and the Queen’s relationship with her people and government.
Lost in the Flood: Young Earth Creationism from George McCready Price to Ken Ham
With Jerry Falwell, Jr. joining the White House task force on higher education policy, it is safe to say that the movement for young Earth creationism will not be dissipating any time soon.
The Unsettling of Appalachia: Identity, Activism, and Appalachian Consciousness in Conversation with S-Town
Appalachia is a region too politicized to romanticize. Though the region could definitely use some romance.
Piercings at Peace: Death and the Body in S-Town
S-Town, even as it relies on new forms of technology and media distribution to create a new genre of podcast storytelling, is part of a long and complex anthropological tradition.
Postcards from Bibb County, Alabama, or Some Thoughts on NPR’s S-Town Podcast
S-Town is much more than a mystery narrative; it is all at once a biography, soap opera, eulogy, and history.
