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The Nature Scam
Mark Trecka reviews "Natural: How Faith in Nature’s Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science," the new book from Alan Levinovitz....
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Mark Trecka
Mark Trecka is a Chicago-born writer, artist, and performer. His writing has appeared in The New Inquiry, Beacon Press’s Broadside blog, Salon, The Creators Project, and elsewhere. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Articles
Do More Than No Harm: On Judith Butler’s “The Force of Nonviolence”
Mark Trecka reviews Judith Butler's latest book, "The Force of Nonviolence."...
The Carceral Invasion: On Brett Story’s “Prison Land”
A prison is less a maze of walls than “a set of relationships,” argues filmmaker Brett Story in a follow-up book to an acclaimed film....
White and Native Protests: A Study in Inequality
Mark Trecka looks at Nick Estes's "Our History Is the Future" and Anthony McCann's "Shadowlands" to see where protest is going....
The United States’s Sacred Gun Problem
The American fetish for firearms goes back to the nation’s genocidal roots, a new book argues....
Interrogation and Transmigration: On Layli Long Soldier’s “Whereas” and Mai Der Vang’s “Afterland”
Mark Trecka reviews Layli Long Soldier’s “Whereas” and Mai Der Vang’s “Afterland.”...
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