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Rebecca Gordon

Rebecca Gordon is the author of "American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes" (2016) and previously, "Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States" (2014). She teaches in the philosophy department at the University of San Francisco. She is a member of the War Times/Tiempo de Guerras collective. You can contact her through the Mainstreaming Torture website.

Articles by this author

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Is Higher Education a Pyramid Scheme?

How college is like the airplane game.

Rebecca Gordon · Aug 17, 2021

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A Climate View From California: Teetering on the Existential Edge

It's impossible to overstate the urgency of the moment.

Rebecca Gordon · Jul 12, 2021

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Social Security Versus National Security: Whose Entitlement Really Makes Us Safer?

Unlike actual citizens, U.S. arms manufacturers seem entitled to ever-increasing government subsidies—welfare for weapons, if you like.

Rebecca Gordon · Jun 15, 2021

Why do the most "essential" workers so often earn so little—or, in the case of those who cook, clean, and care for the people they live with, nothing at all? (Photo: Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

Rethinking Employment in the Biden-Harris Era

One of the lies capitalism tells us is that we should be grateful for our jobs and should think of those who make a profit from our labor not as exploiters but as "job creators."

Rebecca Gordon · Mar 10, 2021

In this long exposure photo, the LNU Lightning Complex fire continues to burn in the ridges near Chemise Road in Healdsburg, California on August 21, 2020. (Photo: Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

The Looming Fires

Climate change, the bomb, or the flame of hope?

Rebecca Gordon · Feb 9, 2021

Security forces respond with tear gas after President Donald Trump's supporters breached the U.S. Capitol, storming the building as lawmakers were set to sign off on President-elect Joe Biden's electoral victory. (Photo: Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The Rubble of Empire: A Fine Time To Begin Thinking About What Might Be Built in Its Place

Doctrines of disaster and dreams of security as the Biden years begin.

Rebecca Gordon · Jan 19, 2021

Nothing in Joe Biden’s history suggests that he or any of the people he's already appointed to his national security team have the slightest inclination to destabilize that Democratic-Republican imperial pact. (Photo: Ron Adar / Echoes Wire / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

It's Almost Twenty Years Since 9/11: Can We Finally Stop Marching to Disaster?

After two decades, can wefinally ask whether trying to prop up a dying empire actually makes us—or indeed the world—any safer.

Rebecca Gordon · Dec 17, 2020

Now that the election season has reached its drawn-out crescendo, there is so much work ahead of us. (Photo: John Williams/flickr/cc)

Our Work Is Just Beginning

"It's only afterwards, once we’ve won, that the real difficulties begin. In short, there is still much to do."

Rebecca Gordon · Nov 5, 2020

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