Today’s episode looks at social reproduction on the margins of the state – where there is a vitalizing drive to create life beyond, against, and outside of imposing limitations, and a persistence of radical sociality — a fundamental challenge to the normalized organization of life around degradation and exploitation. This vitalizing drive is what our guest today, Laura Harris, calls …
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Today we highlight exemplars: A. J. Muste, Mister Rogers, and Benjamin Lay. These were men who lived lives that challenged the expectations of their time and culture. These are peacemakers; but they bring the fire of justice in both word and deed. These men fought for the lives of the oppressed. Perhaps the parable of the Good Samaritan in the …
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Today, the curious case of Benjamin Lay: Englishman, Quaker, cobbler, sailor, cultural shock firebrand, cave dweller, autodidact, animal liberationist, and outspoken critic of the hypocrisy of slave-owning Quakers in 18th century Pennsylvania. He would become known as one of the last radicals of the English revolution — an uprising in the mid 17th century against royal power, and an early …
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