The “Prose of Counterinsurgency” 

Policing, migration, militarization, and the liberal-democratic provocation of the fascist turn in the Republican Party

What Ranajit Guha has called the “prose of counterinsurgency” surely comes closest to characterizing the current state of abolitionist struggles within the context of the US presidential election campaign. With this concept, the postcolonial historian describes the strategies by which uprisings against imperial forms of domination have been degraded as ...
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The “Prose of Counterinsurgency” 

Not All Rural Republicans Are Created Equal

Why Democrats should be looking to the coalfields

Executive Editor Claire Potter, our normal Purple Wednesday columnist, is off this week; we are pleased to welcome Meagan Martin to Public Seminar in this regularly scheduled slot devoted to bridging political divisions in the United States . Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance was named an essential resource for understanding the 2016 ...
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Not All Rural Republicans Are Created Equal