“I would wish not to be hasty in censuring anyone; but I always speak what I think.” –Jane Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice, 1813.

“I write as political attention in the United States and Europe is focused on terrorism, a thematic that almost but not completely obscures sight of the violence of climate change. Societies that are themselves wedded to violence — in the United States, to gun culture, fracking, racialized killings, militarizations of all sorts — express horror at forms of violence insistently presented as coming ‘from the outside.’ It is a hair-raising and sea-rising time, a time, it seems, on the cusp.” –Jane Bennett, professor at Johns Hopkins University, in editor’s note introducing February 2016 issue of the journal Political Theory.

Well, she always speaks what she thinks, anyway.

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