1. Can The Good Place Save Us from Our Real Life Bad Place?
Asking for a friend …
2. For the Men Asking ‘What Can We Do?’
To start: listen.
3. The Nobel Peace Prize For 2018 Has Been Awarded To Denis Mukwege And Nadia Murad
The pair won the prize for their efforts “to end the use of sexual violence in war and armed conflict.”
4. The Cruelty Is the Point
“Anyone afraid of coming forward, afraid that she would not be believed, can now look to the president to see her fears realized. Once malice is embraced as a virtue, it is impossible to contain.”
5. My Journey Into the Vastness of Latin American Literature
“You have to go through Borges to get to Gabriela Mistral; you have to read Vargas Llosa if you want to read Sandra Cisneros. What about Eunice Odio or Yolanda Oreamuno? Even my family in Costa Rica knew practically nothing about them, so what are the chances you would read a poem or essay in a Latinx studies seminar in the U.S. Midwest?”
6. Before Ruth Bader Ginsberg Became a Hero to Feminists, She Had to Overcome Their Distrust
“Ginsburg was and remains a scholar, an advocate, and a judge of formidable sophistication, complexity, and, not least, contradiction and limitation. It is no kindness to flatten her into a paper doll and sell her as partisan merch.”
7. Seeking Communion: On Religious Rights and Civil Rights
“Diversity can shatter monolithic morality, question absolutisms, and challenge fundamentalisms with pluralities of experience. In congregations, it can change the moral views of the congregants.”
8. Women Get a Voice in Conventional Agriculture
“They have always been there, but they’ve been invisible, and they are truly the backbone of the crew.”
9. A Hymn for Justice
How long, O Lord, will justice take?
It seems today our hearts will break.
As women rise to tell the truth,
their voices go unheeded.
10. Meet the 2018 MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius Grant’ Winners
Among the 25: William J. Barber II, 55, pastor and social justice advocate, working on “Building broad-based fusion coalitions as part of a moral movement to confront racial and economic inequality."
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