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Rebecca Gordon

Rebecca Gordon writes about political philosophy, theories of justice including questions of race and gender justice, and their application in the world. An adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, she is the author of Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 Period Oxford: 2014 (Oxford: 2014). She received her MDiv and PhD from Graduate Theological Union.

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Elderly
Getting old in America is another Lonely Game of Haves and Have-Nots; It doesn’t have to be this Way

Getting old in America is another Lonely Game of Haves and Have-Nots; It doesn’t have to be this Way

Rebecca Gordon

(Tomdispatch.com ) – For twelve years starting in 1982, my partner and I in San Francisco joined with two friends in Seattle to produce Lesbian Contradiction: A Journal of Irreverent Feminism, or LesCon for short. We started out typing four-inch columns of text and laying out what was to become a quarterly tabloid on a […]

Uncategorized
Kissinger at 100:  Did Realism really require War Crimes?

Kissinger at 100: Did Realism really require War Crimes?

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Henry Alfred Kissinger turned 100 on May 27th of this year. Once a teenage refugee from Nazi Germany, for many decades an adviser to presidents, and an avatar of American realpolitik, he’s managed to reach the century mark while still evidently retaining all his marbles. That those marbles remain hard and […]

Climate Crisis
The Ugly Side of American Exceptionalism: Refusing to Play by the Rules

The Ugly Side of American Exceptionalism: Refusing to Play by the Rules

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In 1963, the summer I turned 11, my mother had a gig evaluating Peace Corps programs in Egypt and Ethiopia. My younger brother and I spent most of that summer in France. We were first in Paris with my mother before she left for North Africa, then with my father and […]

Far Right
Yes, We have home-grown Fascists: And Now They’re beginning to say the quiet Part Out Loud

Yes, We have home-grown Fascists: And Now They’re beginning to say the quiet Part Out Loud

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com ) – One day when I was about six, I was walking with my dad in New York City. We noticed that someone had stuck little folded squares of paper under the windshield wipers of the cars parked on the street beside us. My father picked one up and read it. I saw […]

Corporations
The Non-Profit Industrial Complex

The Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com) – We’ve just passed through tax time again. (Unless, like me, you live in one of several states ravaged by recent extreme weather events brought on by climate change. In that case, you can wait until October.) It’s also that moment when the War Resisters League — slogan: “If you work for peace, […]

Neoliberalism
The End of Renting?  In Some Cities Affordable Housing is a Thing of the Past

The End of Renting? In Some Cities Affordable Housing is a Thing of the Past

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com) – In 1937, the American folklorist Alan Lomax invited Louisiana folksinger Huddie Ledbetter (better known as Lead Belly) to record some of his songs for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Lead Belly and his wife Martha searched in vain for a place to spend a few nights nearby. But they were […]

Climate Crisis
“Some say the World will End in Fire, some say in Ice”: Life in a Climate-Destabilized California

“Some say the World will End in Fire, some say in Ice”: Life in a Climate-Destabilized California

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It was January 1983 and raining in San Francisco. The summer before, I’d moved here from Portland, Oregon, a city known for its perpetual gray drizzles and, on the 60-odd days a year when the sun deigns to shine, dazzling displays of greenery. My girlfriend had spent a year convincing me […]

US Foreign Policy
Why American Exceptionalism can be a Very Bad Thing

Why American Exceptionalism can be a Very Bad Thing

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Let me start with a confession: I no longer read all the way through newspaper stories about the war in Ukraine. After years of writing about war and torture, I’ve reached my limit. These days, I just can’t pore through the details of the ongoing nightmare there. It’s shameful, but I […]

Democracy
Living Politics, Embedding with Workers, Standing up to the Lies of the Rich

Living Politics, Embedding with Workers, Standing up to the Lies of the Rich

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Welcome back!” read my friend Allan’s email. “So happy to have you back and seeing that hard work paid off. Thank you for all that you do. Please don’t cook this evening. I am bringing you a Honduran dinner — tacos hondureños and baleadas, plus a bottle of wine.” The tacos […]

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