UMAIR HAQUE

UMAIR HAQUE

What it Means to Live in an Abusive Society, and Why We Do

Our Societies Resemble Victims of Severe Abuse. And We Think and Feel Like Them, Too.

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May 05, 2021
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Image Credit: Maya Stevenson

There’s a line I hear regularly that leaves me a little bereft. It goes like this: “It’s better than nothing!” I wrote recently, for example, that Biden’s infrastructure plan is not, as some are calling it, a New Deal, and how it needs to be much larger to make a dent in the problems America is facing. And again I heard — as …

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