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November 09

Solace and Inspiration a Day After the Election

“If there is no struggle there is no progress. . . . This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.”

—Frederick Douglass

November 07

Does America Deserve to Survive?

by Kurt Vonnegut

Does America deserve to survive?

That's the question William Faulkner asked himself after the 1955 murder of Emmitt Till, and that's the question Ariel Dorfman has found himself wondering in 2016, during his pilgrimage to Faulkner's hometown of Oxford, Mississippi.

November 01

Celebrating 40 Years of Project Censored

by Kurt Vonnegut

Did you know that the U.S. military is deployed in 70% of the world's nations? Or that leaked State Deptartment cables show that the U.S. planned to instigate civil strife in Syria as early in 2006? What about the chronic problem of medical neglect in private, for-profit, U.S. immigrant-only jails?

October 25

Politics and Prose at the NYPL

by Kurt Vonnegut

Listen to a panel discussion moderated by Dan Simon (Seven Stories Press) with editors Matt Lord (Boston Review), Katherine Rowland (Guernica), and Dayna Tortorici (n+1).

October 24

Tom Hayden Dies at 76

by Kurt Vonnegut

Today we honor the tremendous energy and vision and commitment to the American political conversation of Tom Hayden

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