“Why we need to remember Kalief Browder
Published: Daily Dot (June 9, 2015)
Note: This article discusses themes of suicide and police abuse.
On Sunday, Kalief Browder took his own life.
You may have first heard about Kalief Browder last April, after the New Yorker obtained exclusive footage of the then teenager being beaten by prison guards and fellow inmates during his three-year stay in prison.... Read Original Article
L’Chaim: A Reflection on a Morbid Anniversary
Published: Good Men Project (June 6, 2015)
Exactly 18 years ago on this day, I nearly died. A somewhat morbid reflection on everything that has happened since.
As I’ve discussed in an earlier article, I was the victim of an anti-Semitic hate crime when I was twelve, one that nearly cost me my life.... Read Original Article
5 reasons George W. Bush is still the worst president ever
Anti-Semitism, Caitlyn Jenner, and the Insecure Male
Published: Good Men Project (June 4, 2015)
Some Men’s Rights Activists are blaming the positive media coverage of Caitlyn Jenner on the Jews. Yes, you read that correctly.
For several weeks, I’ve been carefully preparing an article on a childhood experience that profoundly shaped my worldview today: An act of anti-Semitic bullying that nearly cost me my life.... Read Original Article
The TSA can’t find hidden explosives because the security state is failing you
Published: Daily Dot (June 2, 2015)
A recent internal investigation revealed that the Transportation Security Administration failed 95 percent of its security checkpoint tests. When the Department of Homeland Security made 70 attempts to smuggle explosives and weapons past the citadels of American airport security, they succeeded 67 times.
This is part of a larger pattern of post-9/11 incompetence, one in which we grant increasing, often invasive power to government agencies in the name of national security, only to find out that they aren’t coming even remotely close to doing their job well.... Read Original Article