Journalist – Historian – Speaker
On Fox News, yesterday, Mike Huckabee said this about incoming Chief of Staff John Kelly: “If you have four stars on your shoulder, you’re not a slow learner, you didn’t ride the short bus. He will be fine.” “Short bus” in this instance, is saying that Kelly is not intellectually disabled. In other words, it’s …
No victories are ever total. Today I’m happy we saved Medicaid. It’s ok to be happy. It’s a meaningful if incremental win. Ignore the temptation to immediately point out all the battles yet to come, at least for five minutes. I have a theory of change. It’s not about marches. It’s not about twitter. But …
A TN judge wants to sterilize prisoners. I wrote for @MarshallProj on the US history of eugenics and incarceration. https://t.co/7jL24hSvPk — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) July 27, 2017 In my latest piece, I write for The Marshall Project about the history of incarceration and sterilization, of course just scratching the surface in the short commentary. Under …
Yesterday, I wrote about the adjunct prof fired by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for alleged homophobia. I wrote that we have to pay attention when people with less power are punished for speech, even if their views might be objectionable. Today, I turn to the case of Dr. Jonathan Higgins, the …
Michael Bonesteel was contingent faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). I don’t know the details of his appointment, but it seems he taught sufficient hours to have healthcare through SAIC and had been teaching about contemporary art and comics for a long time. According to Inside Higher Education, he has …
I am pleased to announce that I will be appearing with Maysoon Zayid, Victor Pineda, Sinéad Burke at OZYFEST tomorrow in Central Park, New York City. I’m honored to share the stage with these three. We will be talking about disability rights, and I will focus on parenting and formal journalism, but will hope to talk a …
There’s an ongoing debate about the extent to which medieval scholars need to be concerned about explicitly fighting racism as medieval scholars. I haven’t quite figured out how to write about the issues coherently. But the stakes, to me, are clear. Meet the Knights Templar International. Their FAQ wants you to know that they aren’t …
So part of my new job at the University of Minnesota is to convince students – and their families – that they can major in History and still be gainfully employed. The good news is that it’s true, they can. Even the Harvard Business Review says so. According to three new books, the answer is …
I have a few requests ONE: I would like The Stone, the New York Times philosophy column, to sometimes publish philosophers who are disabled and write about the intersections of philosophy and disability rights from that perspective. At current time, they have published two essays on disability and philosophy, one advocating that perhaps developmentally disabled people who cannot …
Tonight my family goes to Hamilton in Chicago. Hamilton is super important to my son, as I wrote for the Washington Post. We’ve been moved up to seats with easy access to exits. It’s apparently very loud. Also it’s late. We’re nervous, but ready to walk out and go home at any point if needed and count …