Ari Kohen's Blog

Have you seen the advertisement video that Trump released today to sell his $99 NFTs? Watching the video—and, really, you should watch it in all its pitiful glory—I’m shocked anew that so...

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I’m SHOCKED! Are you telling me that the current Governor—who gave millions of dollars to the campaign of the next Governor and who campaigned for him for months—is now asking the next Go...

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WELL THAT WAS A FUN EXPERIMENT IN “FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTISM,” WHICH RESULTED IN EXACTLY WHAT EVERYONE KNEW WOULD HAPPEN—A TIDAL WAVE OF ANTISEMITISM BROADCAST TO TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. ...

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The essays are all graded and returned to the students. And now one of my favorite parts of the Thanksgiving holiday week: In honor of finishing our discussion of “Coriolanus,” the extra cr...

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Long, long ago I used this platform to connect with people, argue about politics, write about pop culture, and just generally make noise. Then I stopped. Mostly I spent time on Twitter, which i...

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I’ve read a lot over the past few days about Phil Zimbardo’s iconic Stanford Prison Experiment, which is back in the news because people are now claiming it’s a fraud . What follows are som...

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I’ve been thinking a lot about The Last Jedi since seeing it on Thursday night and I’ve been talking a lot about it since publishing my spoiler-filled critique of it on Friday afternoon. Wh...

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I’m a massive Star Wars fan. I spent countless hours with my action figures and invented all sorts of storylines for Luke, Leia, Han, and Vader as they flew around in my hands or almost drown...

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Please bear with me a moment for something uncomfortable. I haven’t written anything at all about the powerful #MeToo and #IWill campaigns on Twitter and Facebook. I didn’t write anything a...

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Political Theory, Human Rights, Pop Culture

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A Predictable BDS Win at Tufts : At least a few times a month, someone asks me about the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement because I teach a class on Israel every year. I get these questio...

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I’ve seen a few hundred of my friends share videos of a passenger being forcibly removed from a United flight because it was oversold. What I haven’t seen yet–which is why I’m writing abo...

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It seems to me important to note that there isn’t something wrong per se with involving the United States in the Syrian crisis in a meaningful way with the hope of bringing that crisis to an en...

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TrumpWatch is creating an objective daily report on our objectively worst President : Hey Tumblr! For the past 8 weeks, I’ve been writing up a daily briefing about the Trump presidency and ...

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For the low price of only $200K – make out your check directly to the Trump Organization – you can get a front row seat in the Situation Room and they’ll even serve you dinner too. And when...

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Over the past week or two, I’ve spent a fair amount of time, both online and offline, on the Betsy DeVos nomination for a bunch of reasons. The first is I’m from Detroit. There aren’t many...

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Sometimes you only need three photos to understand everything that’s wrong.

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Undocument immigrants who commit crimes in American cities aren’t protected by sanctuary city ordinances. Not all immigrants and refugees are undocumented. Not all immigrants and refugees commi...

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Yesterday, Donald Trump named Steve Bannon to the very powerful position of chief strategist and senior advisor in his White House. For those who don’t know, Bannon has been the managing editor...

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I haven’t known how to write this post so I hope you’ll bear with me as I try to get it right. I put on a kippah one morning this week and I haven’t taken it off. I anticipate wearing it ...

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