Joel Wendland-Liu

Joel Wendland-Liu teaches courses on diversity, intercultural competence, migration, and civil rights at Grand Valley State University in West Michigan. He is the author of The Collectivity of Life: Spaces of Social Mobility and the Individualism Myth, and a former editor of Political Affairs.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu

Opinion

Capitalism needs racism: A response to the NYT 1619 Project
January 9, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Without linking capitalist development to the material force of white supremacy and imperialism, much of the historical development and contemporary process slips into an ideological and nationalist discourse.
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Opinion

Bernie Sanders is right, billionaires shouldn’t exist
December 18, 2019 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Since its founding, most U.S. ruling class elites have despised democracy. That's still the case today.
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Politics

Keep me in your heart: Race and class politics in the Trump era
October 15, 2019 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Many white people have constructed a working-class identity resting primarily on their whiteness. Instead of a democratic alliance of all people in the face of corporate dominance, many seem to want control over the advantages of...
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Culture

HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’: Writer Craig Mazin’s imploding ideological superstructure
July 31, 2019 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Mazin chose to flog the dead horse of Cold War anti-Sovietism in order to make a statement about global climate change, but “truth” suffers in the process.
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Opinion

Open source socialism: Harnessing innovation for progressive change
June 29, 2016 By Joel Wendland-Liu
The impulse for large-scale, government-led democratic socialist reforms could produce the qualitative transformation Marx counted on.
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Environment

Too late to apologize for poisoning Flint’s water supply
January 6, 2016 By Joel Wendland-Liu
The full story about the administration's true role in this disaster may have to wait for the outcome of federal-level investigations.
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Opinion

The left’s challenge: facing institutional and individual racism
August 12, 2015 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Perhaps hammering out a common agenda violates the concept of Black Lives Matter, but we can still work something out along with other Democratic and progressive candidates.
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U.S.

White House to boost fuel economy standards
July 29, 2011 By Joel Wendland-Liu
The average car fuel economy will nearly double by 2025 to almost 55 miles per gallon, President Obama announced.
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