Does Privilege Matter?
Did you know that you are free to find your own happiness in the world, no matter what situation you were born into? Don’t believe me. Listen to this rich, white guy Jean Paul Sartre explain it.
Did you know that you are free to find your own happiness in the world, no matter what situation you were born into? Don’t believe me. Listen to this rich, white guy Jean Paul Sartre explain it.
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield In an interview for Politico’s Off Message podcast, Conservative Republican Senator from Nebraska, Ben Sasse, explained that the Republican Party has a “big problem.” “Washington is just lame. Washington is incredibly ineffective,” Sasse said. “Washington is weak…Washington is populated by people who aren’t very interesting,” Sasse told Politico, and be…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jordan LaPorta Forty years ago, pop culture was changed forever by a film most people thought would be nothing more than an ephemeral summer flick. The movie’s mastermind had minimal acclaim prior to its release, and his biggest hit before 1977 was American Graffiti. But in 2017, Star Wars…
by Ian Tartt “Liberty and justice for all” is a popular phrase in the American lexicon, especially as it is the last line in the Pledge of Allegiance. But what does it mean, and is it an accurate description of the modern US? Most people have some understanding of liberty, but what about justice? Some…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: In 2016, the Libertarian Party gave us Gary Johnson. So they essentially gave us nothing, which is really not surprising, because when does America’s third largest party ever get anything at all done? Their Vice Chair is a hateful, anti-military hack and our Chair doesn’t bother to control him. In…
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton “Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.” Frank Herbert We have above some of the collected wisdom a historian/writer/politician and the writer of Dune. Suffice to say being the follow up act is a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Cory Wolfe Perhaps more than any time in recent history, people around the world are living in politically and societally contentious times. This results in greater tensions among the people who live through it, and it escalates the need for effective debate among those people. Everyone involved in…