More importantly, how might we respond?– A Hard Crackers Roundtable Series John: Let me begin with what is probably obvious. The last several weeks have witnessed an extraordinary explosion of protests, of just about every imaginable variety, by who knows how many people across the US and the world in an ever-changing flow of innovation and […]
Nothing Less Than Total Repudiation
White America is reeling from being exposed to the truth. We are like the children of a mobster who wake up to the headlines that our dear father, who brought us home candy and protected us from the neighbors on the other side of the tracks, turns out to be a bloodthirsty killer who made […]
The Blood on the Bricks: On Reform, Characters & The Iron City House Rockers
First off, I want to encourage all readers to check out the new Matthew Lyons essay in the publication Three Way Fight on the ruling class strategies towards insurgency. Matthew explores the carrot and stick approach to co-optation. He deals with the late 1960s period. In a nutshell, the article outlines liberal measures that enjoyed a […]
What Are White Workers Thinking? An Interview with Timothy Lombardo
Timothy Lombardo is a native of Northeast Philadelphia and the author of Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics. We caught up with him to discuss the post-war dynamics that gave rise to blue-collar conservatism, white ethnic support for law and order as a fix all solution to social problems, and the foreclosure of […]
“Schools Are an Extension of Police:” Reflections from an Arizona teacher
This August a former student of mine will go on trial for capital murder in Texas. I have no reason to suspect anything other than that he will receive the maximum sentence in the end, which is death. The thought that hung over my head wasn’t “how did we not see it coming?” but something […]
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: On The Demolition of the Symbols
When we see something that we are used to seeing being taken away or changed, we tend to pay special attention. In this recent upsurge against police violence, the protestors have been advocating for the removal of statues, flags, names of well-known places like parks and streets, even the titles of military bases in the […]