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Condemned to Freedom, Sartre Sought Existential Rescue

Claudio Tognonato il manifesto
For existentialism, the choice for oneself is the choice for a world, for commitment to a plural world. Returning to Sartre today means not accepting the distracted somnambulism of our societies, because we have only one life and only one planet.

Think CEO Pay Is Outrageous?

Timothy Noah The New Republic
Get a Load of CEO Retirement Plans. They are called—I kid you not—“top hat” plans. And they drain everybody else’s 401(k)s.

FBI for Abuses Surveillance Tool 278,000+ Times

Jessics Corbett Common Dreams
"The FBI's systematic misuse of these resources proves that it (and the rest of the federal government) simply can't be trusted to wield this sort of power," said one campaigner. "Let 702 die."

Minneapolis

Peter Neil Carroll This Land, These People: The 50 States
Approaching the 3rd anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, the crisis of race relations remains contested ground, even in liberal states like Minnesota.

Malcolm X at 98 | Angela Davis

A talk by Angela Davis on the occasion of Malcolm X's 98th birthday, at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center.