activism… Why You’re Scared and Why It’s Not A Personal Failing 24 Oct 202525 Nov 2025 Several years ago, before the pandemic, the Institute for Precarious Consciousness released a zine: "We Are All Very Anxious." The thesis of the zine was that capitalism generally has a…
activism… Face to Face with Fascism: Reflections on The Long March for Unity and Justice 14 Dec 202431 Dec 2024 Foreshadowing By late September, I was nearly certain Donald Trump would win the election. The signs were everywhere, figuratively and literally—even in unexpected places like the Long March for Unity…
activism… Pineview Manor: Gentrification and Displacement in Fayetteville’s Branson Area and Savoy Heights 5 Sep 20247 Sep 2024 If you're curious about gentrification in Fayetteville, take a drive down Branson Street and Turnpike Road. The area is at the early-to-mid stages of transformation. Branson runs parallel to Simpson…
history… A Common Mailman: A Review of “Eichmann in Jerusalem’ 28 May 202428 May 2024 "The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly…
activism… Banned Books 2 Oct 20233 Oct 2023 The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 was met by my students with tepid interest at first. In the characters they sometimes saw themselves, a parent, a sibling, or a…
history… Trouble at Bragg 29 Jun 202019 Dec 2023 Night of Terror Early in the morning of 6 August 1941, 500 Black soldiers lay on the ground of the prison yard at Fort Bragg. For five hours they were…
history… Families Belong Together: Fayetteville 18 Jun 201828 Mar 2023 Cape Fear Indivisible held its rally yesterday at the Market House in downtown Fayetteville, North Carolina. The site of the rally itself, built in the 1830s, is not without controversy.…
Genealogy… The Loves (?) of John Kiser 19 Jan 20188 Jul 2021 If you drink, then have a beer before or during this one. I'm going to do my best to focus this story even though, like any story, it involves a…
An Unhappy Consciousness 