Warren J. Blumenfeld

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Jan 19, 2025, 6:25 AM

A Thin Line in Education Separates Parental Rights and Child Abuse

"When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing." -- Adrienne Rich The United States Supreme...

Jan 14, 2025, 3:14 AM

Israeli, Russian, U.S. Imperialism & MAGAfest Destiny

The 15-member United Nations Security Council took a highly controversial step on Friday, December 23, 2016 by voting 14-0 to condemn Israel’s construction of so-called “settlements” on the occupied West Bank taken after the 1967 War with its Arab...

Jan 13, 2025, 8:27 AM

January 20, 2025: Confluence of MLK Holiday, Carter Memorial, and Trump Inauguration

This year on January 20, 2025, we experience a political planetary alignment of sorts. Though his birthday was on January 15, the United States will commemorate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s national holiday on the 20th. Following the recent...

Jan 10, 2025, 11:52 PM

Trump Is Anti-DEI but Pro-OPK (Oligarchs, Plutocrats, & Kleptocrats) Hiring Practices

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” ― Lyndon B....

Jan 9, 2025, 7:13 AM

Donald Trump’s “Drill Baby Drill” Actually Kills Baby Kills

While most political commentators and pundits are focusing on Trump’s proposals during his Mar-a-Laga press conference, Tuesday, January 6, 2025, where he expressed his intentions of vastly expanding the territory of the United States by annexing Canada as the...

Jan 6, 2025, 1:14 PM

Is a Second U.S. Civil War Imminent?

I have learned many lessons in my studies of authoritarian takeovers of once thriving democratic nations throughout the ages leading often to genocides. Strong leaders whip up sentiments by employing dehumanizing stereotyping and scapegoating of entire groups, while other citizens...

Jan 2, 2025, 10:42 PM

The Old Orange Dog Is Incapable of Learning the New Trick of Consoler-in-Chief

During times of national tragedies, our leaders, especially our Presidents, attempt to bring together people of all backgrounds and political ideologies. They stand in front of a frightened and grieving nation to support the process of recovery, healing, and...

Dec 28, 2024, 9:41 AM

On Trumpery and Firing Up Our Activism

“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal,” said Richard Nixon to the British interviewer, David Front, years following the disgraced former president’s resignation from his office for criminal offenses of bugging and spying on his...

Dec 26, 2024, 11:11 PM

Displaying My Hanukkah Menorah with Pride and Hope

A major tenet of liberation is having the freedom to define oneself and not be defined by others. This includes the ability to live freely, unencumbered by others or by the larger society’s hegemonic promotions of hierarchical positions of...

Dec 21, 2024, 12:43 AM

Donald Trump’s Authoritarianism Demands a Compliant Frightened Press

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the...

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About Me

Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld is the author of God, Guns, Capitalism, and Hypermasculinity: Commentaries on the Culture of Firearms in the United States, Author of The What, The So What, and The Now What of Social Justice Education, Co-Editor of Readings for Diversity and Social Justice.