Warren J. Blumenfeld

Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld is author of Warren’s Words: Smart Commentary on Social Justice (Purple Press); editor of Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price (Beacon Press), and co-editor of Readings for Diversity and Social Justice (Routledge) and Investigating Christian Privilege and Religious Oppression in the United States (Sense), and co-author of Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life (Beacon Press).

SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL activist Greta Thunberg in December, 2020.

What is the role of the artist activist? - opinion

The true artist expresses, narrates, conveys, while purging and cleansing from an inner core to achieve stasis until the torrent washes over once again.

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

WE LIGHT a candle of hope and possibilities as we light the menorah.

On Hanukkah, it's time to light a candle for a better tomorrow - opinion

Coronavirus vaccines and the incoming Biden-Harris administration signal a brighter future after a long, dark tunnel.

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A volunteer receives an injection in a human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, at the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South Africa, June 24, 2020

The anti-vaccine movement promotes child neglect and abuse

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Donald Trump's victory in 2016 was no fluke – opinion

Some people say the United States is “better than this.” Unfortunately, half of the population shows us that it is not.

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

US President Donald Trump speaks about early results from the 2020 US presidential election in the East Room of the White House in Washington, US, November 4, 2020.

Trump declares war on trans service members

By choosing Pence, Trump has doubled down on his attempts to divide and conquer the electorate.

JULY 29, 2017

PEOPLE PROTEST US President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender service members in the military.

Donald Trump’s situational compassion and outrage

Donald Trump has demonstrated a consistent pattern of selective situational compassion and outrage, depending on the events and the countries or individuals involved.

JUNE 22, 2017

US President Donald Trump pauses as he announces his decision that the United States will withdraw from the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, US, June 1, 2017.

Fascism will fail in the US because of ‘We the People’

According to the great abolitionist who escaped the chains of bondage, Frederick Douglass, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A PERSON protesting ‘fascism’ at a rally in New York City.

My shame for not speaking sooner

I believe that I am a good person, but I did nothing, and evil has triumphed in Syria.

DECEMBER 21, 2016

PEOPLE WAIT for buses after being displaced by fighting near Aleppo in Syria