Calling up the Nineteenth Century to Understand our Own Times. Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth, Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered and Tony Horowitz’s Spying on the South
Annette Gordon-Reed, and Barbara Kingsolver are writers grounded in history, science, and Tony Horowitz was a writer steeped in evidence, yet reading On Juneteenth, Unsheltered, and Spying on the South together, felt like a mystical retreat with three mediums,...
Literary Pairing #2: We are Meant to Rise & The Sentence
Literary Pairing #2: We are Meant to Rise & The Sentence The Twin Cities are rising. Teachers in Minneapolis and St. Paul are wearing each other’s colors in solidarity as they prepare for a two-city strike, demanding raises for their lowest tier educational...
Super Spreading Social Justice
Super Spreading Social Justice I have been thinking about super-spreader events. Not the kind that makes hundreds of people sick, but the kinds that transform lives in a good way. An early one that changed me was the 1979 Take Back the Night March in Minneapolis. The...