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On Iran: Myth, Emblem, and the Politics of Solidarity
A local activist has been sharing a sheet of bumper stickers. Bold red letters against green and white stripes read: NO WAR WITH IRAN.
 • Ramin Farahmandpur
Two Minutes on the Brink
What the State of the Union Didn't Tell You About Iran
 • Ramin Farahmandpur
The Troll in Office: A Taxonomy
A field guide to elected officials who mistake their feed for their job
 • Ramin Farahmandpur
The Conditions of Discourse
What the occupation of Portland City Hall destroyed, and for whom
 • Ramin Farahmandpur
The Pedagogy of Reggaetón
Bad Bunny, Paulo Freire, and Anti-Colonialism
 • Ramin Farahmandpur
The Names We Buried
My family buried names to survive. One of them surfaced decades later in a shop window in southern France.
 • Ramin Farahmandpur
From Operation Ajax to Operation Midnight Hammer: What Colonialism’s Defenders Don’t Count
As I write this, the Pentagon is moving warships, fighter jets, and refueling tankers toward the Persian Gulf.
 • Ramin Farahmandpur
The Philosopher Who Stopped Philosophizing: On Peter Boghossian
A former colleague and Iranian refugee reflects on why Peter Boghossian traded the uncertainty of the Socratic method for the certainty of the culture…
 • Ramin Farahmandpur
The Filing Cabinet
Reclaiming Online Pedagogy from the Canvas Repository
 • Ramin Farahmandpur
What’s the Matter with the Kansas Curriculum?
How a budget bill reveals the Gramscian logic of the anti-DEI movement
 • Ramin Farahmandpur
The Equity Administrators Who Cannot See Themselves
On the peculiar psychology of critical scholars who become the thing they used to critique
 • Ramin Farahmandpur
Teaching the Teacher
Reflections on Student Course Evaluations
 • Ramin Farahmandpur
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