The lie of apartheid is that the oppressors are safe, secure, and free. As Simone de Beauvoir told us, in The Ethics of Ambiguity as well as various political writings, freedom is not manifest in any oppressive situation. The binary — the boundary — is an illusion. October 7th is case in point. Z*onists and…

In my eight-plus years at Stanford, I experienced many forms of quiet firing, which, according to Michigan State University professors Ayalla Ruvio and Forrest Morgeson, describes the intentional creation of “a hostile work environment that encourages people to leave voluntarily.” In their Harvard Business Review article, Ruvio and Morgeson identified a variety of indicators of…

I am adding My April 30, 2025, “News Update” to my blog page, for posterity:   April was … not great. It began with burying my beloved grandfather, Michelangelo Bianco. He lived the American Dream — an Italian immigrant who built his family, home, and career from the ground up; literally, tilling the soil himself to…

The next steps for progressives are obvious: First, give up the ghost of equality. EQUALITY WILL NOT FREE US. And policy, judicial, and cultural trends have proven how equality has served as an adept cudgel of conservatives, from overturning affirmative action based on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to asserting that “equality begins in…

No woman will be elected to the US presidency as long as the electoral college exists. And you can quote me on that.

The stranglehold of consumer capitalism on American minds is no more apparent than the current move to buy blue bracelets as a sign of solidarity with Kamala Harris and her campaign. This performative activism reflects our inability to grapple with and reconcile profound complexities in our society — the (largely, white liberal) feeling of “how could…

I am not disillusioned. If you’re familiar with my work, and especially “Breaking Free,” you’ll have known that Kamala Harris was never going to win this election — the “democratic” institutions in this country, and specifically the electoral college, are not broken. They are working according to their design. (More from “Breaking Free,” below.) “Voting equality”…

Even for those of us who choose to be childFREE are not without children — we live in a world with children. We are their aunts, uncles, cousins, teachers, etc. What an absolutely idiotic word.

Transparency is a threat to organizations. People who claim otherwise are liars. Organizations will do anything to preserve unjust mechanisms and practices predicated on secrecy. This is why labor unions also post a threat.

Why is it controversial to say so?