Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties

Thomas M. Grace details how the National Guard killings of antiwar students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, were not a mere tragic anomaly. Rather they were grounded in a tradition of student political activism that extended back to Ohio’s labor battles of the 1960s.

Challenging Militarism, Climate Change, and Human Nature

Our ability to address urgent threats to our existence like climate change and nuclear weapons is hampered and undermined by questionable assumptions about “human nature” that underlie much political thought and action…. “There will be no liberation without us knowing how to depend on each other, how to be encumbered with and responsible for each other.”