Freedom does not keep well. It spoils if left unattended. Someone has to notice before it curdles, before it slips away.
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Mapping Malcolm
Contested grounds: Mapping the evolution of Malcolm X’s legacy
September 3, 2025
Editor Najha Zigbi-Johnson’s conversation with contributor Dr. Marc Lamont Hill in the volume expands our understanding of Malcolm X’s legacy.
September 3, 2025
Mapping Malcolm
Mapping Malcolm—An introduction
September 3, 2025
Mona Oraby, longtime editor of The Immanent Frame, and Najha Zigbi-Johnson, editor of Mapping Malcolm, discuss Malcolm X’s legacy, bridging academic scholarship and community-based intellectual work, editorial practice, and the need for critical, transdisciplinary research.
September 3, 2025
Karmic historiography
The karma of this place
August 27, 2025
The moral problem attendant on many deployments of the concept of karma is that it has been used to “blame the victim.” That is, karma has been used to explain the suffering…
August 27, 2025
Karmic historiography
Karma as active resistance
August 20, 2025
Karma is one of the most well-known concepts associated with Buddhism in the West. In many Asian countries where Buddhism has shaped the social and cultural landscape for more than a millennium,…
August 20, 2025
Essays
Revisited: Political religion and crises of legitimacy
August 14, 2025
In 2017, I argued that the concepts of civil and political religions help explain contemporary sociopolitical developments in Russia and the United States.
August 14, 2025
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