In this piece for Local Call I cover the political background of the increase in forest fires in the Amazon this summer, as well as the connection to animal agriculture and indigenous rights.
Ethical Shopping: Neoliberalism's Greatest Victory
Neoliberalism has had no greater victory, I suspect, than in the trend of highly selective consumption among leftists.
Politics is not a video game
People often seem to conceptualize politics as akin to video games in which you can just make a click and decide how things will be done. Reality is, of course, much more complicated.
The Nonbinary Hebrew Project and Nonbinary Israeli Hebrew
The Nonbinary Hebrew Project is a lovely proposal by US Jews for nonbinary forms in Hebrew, but it seems to ignore the fact there is already a Hebrew-speaking nonbinary community in Israel which has come up with quite different solutions to a similar problem.