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A few thoughts on “Colin Kaepernick and Non-violent Civil Disobedience”

I wrote a draft originally of an essay here at this blog on Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the “Star-Spangled Banner” before football games. The full piece has now been published over at Medium.com in The Coffeelicious, one of […]

“Natural Symbols”: On the Brutality of Popular Opinion and Why You Think You’re Always Right

Anthropologist Mary Douglas published a book called Natural Symbols 45 years ago. It’s a gateway into thinking about how individuals encode their perceptions of reality through the complex cosmology of cultural symbols they live in — bodily or “natural” symbols in particular. The […]

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