Joel Wendland-Liu
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu
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Books
‘All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running’: A novel in review
September 29, 2021The idea of collective shaping of a clear vision of how the world is and how it ought to be is a central theme of Rodriques’s first novel All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running.
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Opinion
Why did Nancy Pelosi appeal to white supremacy to reject student loan forgiveness?
July 29, 2021To frame her opposition to student loan forgiveness as unfair to white people who pay taxes is standard talk right out of the playbook of Trump, Bush, and Reagan.
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News
Will Biden continue the racist Trump-era ‘China Initiative?’
June 30, 2021Accusations of terrible crimes, like spying or stealing millions of dollars, have been made against scholars. Could it all be an attempt to recruit for U.S. intelligence?
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Opinion
What has the working class gotten from the Biden administration so far?
May 27, 2021Major action is needed, but Democratic leaders and Biden are sitting around wringing their hands and pointing fingers.
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Opinion
‘Predictive policing’ is a techno-tool of white supremacy
April 30, 2021Predictive policing is based on the idea that data (say, high levels of unemployment, racism, poverty, and poor education) can predict crime.
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Culture
‘Making it’ in America as pure fantasy: Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Homeland Elegies: A Novel’
March 17, 2021The book jacket describes Homeland Elegies as “[p]art family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel.”
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Opinion
As Trump era closes, Washington cannot rule in the old way
January 19, 2021A return to a neoliberal agenda will only deepen the crisis. People can no longer accept a system dominated by billionaires and millionaires—from either major party.
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Politics
The people, not the military, must protect democracy in America
September 29, 2020The generals’ call for the Joint Chiefs of Staff to drag a resisting Trump out of the White House is not sufficient to protect democracy.
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