Mila Ghorayeb is a graduate student in political theory at McGill University doing research in the history of political thought and critical social theory.
In her book Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez repeatedly refers to the time Bernie Sanders said: “it’s not enough to say ‘I’m a woman, vote for me.’” This line seemed to irritate her. Later in the book, she concludes that it is enough to say such a thing,
The murder of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer has once again brought the issue of systemic racism, police violence, and criminal justice reform to the forefront of the American national conversation, in print and in the streets. As part of that conversation, Liberal Currents solicited
antisemitism
Much ink has been spilled in recent months debating comments by U.S. Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) regarding Israel. People have argued, sometimes in good faith, that they used antisemitic tropes, unintentionally or not. However, this discussion has lacked necessary cultural and social background to make
democracy
“One of the best jokes of democracy [was that] it provided its mortal enemies itself the means through which it was annihilated,” claimed Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, articulating what we now call the paradox of democracy.[1] It was precisely this concern that drove political scientist Karl Loewenstein to coin