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Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
people’s multiple identities cannot be cut apart.
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
utilitarian spectacles have been swapped for spectacles through which the world is classified by concepts.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
There is no forced retirement from aging creatively.
Morrie Schwartz • The Wisdom of Morrie: Living and Aging Creatively and Joyfully
What will be left when the walls of constructed identity come down?
Alan Lew • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
From this point of view, Rodney King’s protective reflexes, the disorderly movements by which he struggled to stay alive (he flaps his arms, staggers, tries to get up, stands on his knees) were described as being under his “total control” and as evidence of “dangerous intent,” as if violence were the sole voluntary action possible for a Black body,
... See moreElsa Dorlin • Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence
and guides us in valuing what is difficult, what is different
Rabbi Levy • Journey Through the Wilderness: A Mindfulness Approach to the Ancient Jewish Practice of Counting the Omer
The problem arises, as Asch observed, when “a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole.” Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized group, are dehumanized and oppressed by being reduced to a single, devalued trait; the path to justice must be driven by the rehabilitation of that characteristic.
Andrew Leland • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
characterized human thought and feeling, and the entire realm of human history.