If you didn’t know by now, you should: last Monday, George Floyd died when a white police officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes. The fact that he is black, in a country where black people are unfairly scrutinized and made to endure higher rates of police brutality, has turned a single miscarriage of justice into an indictment of an unjust society; to comment on Floyd’s death is to also invoke the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Travyon Martin, and Michael Brown. read more

Little kids are the greatest disciples of Socrates and they don’t even try.

I mean that they are perhaps the perfect embodiment of one of the more famous statements attributed to him: “I know that I know nothing.” Of course we all know that kids know nothing. But kids also understand this to be true; that’s why they ask so many questions. These questions might seem trivial to our ears but they’re much more significant to children, for the simple reason that they are one of the only means by which kids can attempt to understand the world we take for granted. read more

Although former Biden staffer Tara Reade’s allegations of sexual assault were first detailed in a podcast way back in late March, it was not until April 12 that they received mainstream coverage in the form of accounts written in the New York Timesand the Washington Post. Since then, many of the other major players in news media have followed suit in covering the issue, including the Associated Press, Politico, and the Atlantic.

From the amount of press they have received in the past few weeks, you would think that the allegations would be considered by most of the media to be a newsworthy event. Yet there are some glaring anomalies: with the exception of Fox News, none of the major news networks have picked up on the story to nearly the same extent. This is especially concerning given that the person being accused is the presumptive Democratic nominee; in addition, the recent #MeToo movement has arguably encouraged the mainstream media to be more thorough in its coverage of allegations against public figures, Brett Kavanaugh being a recent example. read more