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Eric J Weiner

Other People’s Children: The Struggle for Moral Clarity at the Border

Nelson Mandela said, “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” Echoing his…

9 min readApr 28, 2021

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Eric J Weiner

Sequestered Spaces, Public Places: Identity Politics, The Neoliberal University, And The Crisis Of…

An intransigent form of identity politics in combination with neoliberal ideology has left the modern university, if not in ruins, then…

17 min readApr 19, 2021

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Eric J Weiner

In Pursuit of Radical Pleasure

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. — Audre Lorde

11 min readApr 19, 2021

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Eric J Weiner

Learning to Laze

From Saint Pélagie Prison in 1883, Paul Lafargue wrote The Right to Be Lazy, an anti-capitalist polemic that challenged the hegemony of…

7 min readApr 19, 2021

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Eric J Weiner

The Things We Schlep: A Short Cultural Study Of Type 1 Diabetes

The word “schlep” comes from the Yiddish “schlepn,” which means to drag or haul. You don’t have to be Jewish to be a schlepper, although…

20 min readApr 19, 2021

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Eric J Weiner

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the…

10 min readApr 19, 2021

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Eric J Weiner

The Responsibility of Intellectuals who Teach

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. ― Soren Kierkegaard

18 min readApr 19, 2021

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Eric J Weiner

Sole Craft and Soul Craft

Quarantined, sheltered, holed-up, bunkered, hiding, homebound, trapped–whatever you want to call it–I am, probably (hopefully) like you…

8 min readApr 19, 2021

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Eric J Weiner

The MisEducation of White Folks

What does it mean to be white in America in 2020? As Boots Riley points out to Dick Doolittle in the opening exchange to the song The Coup…

14 min readApr 19, 2021

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Eric J Weiner

A Letter to my Daughter

Dear Chloe:

14 min readApr 19, 2021

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Eric J Weiner

Eric J Weiner

Eric J. Weiner is a professor and writes about a range of topics including critical education, power, language, and identity.

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