The take: “Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. We must invade to protect ourselves.”Who said it: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Tony Blair, and most of the US Congress (a who’s...
Continue readingEdward Said was a Palestinian American literary critic who wrote a book in 1978 that made an entire academic field shit itself. The field was Middle Eastern Studies. The book was Orientalism.His central argument is th...
Continue reading“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” Mark Twain
Continue readingMichel Foucault was a French philosopher who looked at institutions that everyone thought were nice and good (schools, hospitals, prisons) and said: “Hold on. Why the fuck do they all look the same?”He observed that t...
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