Ready for a legal breakdown of the literary agent model? Along the way, I’ll offer a personal publishing horror story and advice to writers considering traditional publishing. (Warning: I think the rebel in me is coming out.) Primordial Times I’ll start with 1982—the ancient days of landlines, manuscript boxes, and postage stamps. 1982 was also […] The post “Let Every Eye Negotiate for Itself”: A…
The Power of Lies: Are we Creating our own Noise? On Saturday, June 20, 2026, I gave two talks in Madison, Wisconsin. Because audience questions took me in different directions, each covered slightly different ground. Also, I prepared more material than I had time to present. But it’s all here, including a few questions from […] The post The Power of Lies appeared first on Teri Kanefield .
We are seeing a nationwide surge in attempts to censor books in schools, libraries, and universities. I plan to talk about how librarians might deal with these challenges, but first, I think we should step back to look at the big picture to better understand this moment and the challengers themselves. I’ll begin by stating […] The post Libraries Under Attack? appeared first on Teri Kanefield .
Let My People In: The Story of Immigration in the U.S. My sixteen-year-old Chilean nephew was curious about what’s going on with ICE. In Chile, the word “conservative” is associated with capitalism, and the word “liberal” is associated with communism. He observed that Donald Trump says he’s a capitalist but doesn’t act like one. I told […] The post appeared first on Teri Kanefield .
Praise for Why Intolerance and Extremism Happen “This is a book for any common-sense person who has looked around at the political division and outrage-fueled information environment and said, ‘What the hell is going on?’ or ‘How did we get here?’” —Dannagal Young, Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Delaware “Kanefield […] The post Why Intolerance and Extremism…
All About Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony was born in 1820 into a Quaker family. She always embraced Quakerism and its ideals. Quakers held the belief (considered radical at the time) that all people are equal. One scholar, Kathleen Berry, describes Susan B. Anthony as a “radical egalitarian,” which explains her life choices, even […] The post Susan B. Anthony appeared first on Teri Kanefield .
It’s All About the Tenth Amendment (No, really, it is) The history of the Tenth Amendment explains [almost] everything happening in politics and government today. The Tenth Amendment consists of a single sentence: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the […] The post It’s All About the Tenth Amendment (No, really, it…
When the Guardian, the Telegraph, and Jennifer Mercieca recommended The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking by Leor Zmigrod, I figured I should get a copy and read it. So I did. Leor Zmigrod is a political neuroscientist with an impressive resume. Her book is about how our brains function and why so […] The post Your Brain on Ideology appeared first on Teri Kanefield .
To gain perspective on today’s politics, I have set out on a journey. I haven’t settled on a title yet, but I’m thinking something like “Make Political Philosophy Cool Again.” Here’s where we’ve been so far: Introduction. (Given the nature of our current information disruption and what I was seeing in both left-leaning and right-leaning […] The post Part 5: Do the People Want a King? appeared…
I started out writing about the trial and execution of Socrates. This brought me to the nature of subversiveness and the role of subversive elements in a democracy. * * * To gain perspective on today’s politics, I have set out on a journey. Here’s where we’ve been so far: Introduction. (Given the nature of […] The post Part 4: Socrates and the Subversive Element appeared first on Teri Kanefield .