Contemporary Identity Politics in the United States is a profound source of divisiveness and racism, and we should take notes from the 1960s Civil Rights movement so as to move the cultural conversation away from pernicious Identity Politics.

It is an empirically provable fact that most people live a great temporal portion of their lives doing activities they do not find meaningful. Such lives more readily lead to nihilism and the solutions, while quite straightforward, are unlikely to be implemented.

The U.S. prison system operates on the presupposition that prisoners need to be punished, not rehabilitated. But what if this presupposition flipped?