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A conversation with Professor Richard Reddick on the rise and – and increasingly the fall – of the ‘Lost Cause’ of Confederate monuments

urbanitus - July 9, 2020

As statues venerating Confederate heroes fall across America, just as fiery defenses of their...

Today the pedestals are empty

Zachary Suri - July 5, 2020

Today the statues float in rivers and finally the citadels of false reverence are beginning to fall What does it say about us that we are obsessed with protecting the statues of the long-dead

‘We did not choose to live in an interesting time… it chose us’

Janet Miranda - June 22, 2020

There is an old adage, “May you live in interesting times” that gets erroneously...

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‘Caste,’ an election and the resonance of racism below the surface of liberal, progressive America

Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz once stood up to Donald Trump — they need to do so again for our democracy

How to make America radical again (and how to remember that in fact it always has been)

The just society and knowledge economy now towering on the post-pandemic horizon

As the fog at last lifts, the future begins to arrive much sooner than we ever expected

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On cities, primary colors and the meaning of ‘geo-urbanism’

How the old ‘all politics is local’ became today’s ‘all local politics are global’

Gentrification is not a byproduct of planned urban growth, it is the plan

Austin’s challenge: a common language of environmental sustainability

Austin may condemn its sordid history — it should condemn its troubled present

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The radical remaking of Austin’s ...

On cities, primary colors and the meaning of ‘geo-urbanism’

On cities’ ‘OK boomer’ face-off with state and national governments

Gentrification is not a byproduct of planned urban growth, it is the plan

Dogs to roads to human rights — Austin’s direct democracy decades