Introducing… The Busboys and Poets Book Club A book club that explores anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism through literature, history, and lived experience. Together, we’ll read writers and thinkers who challenge empire, occupation, exploitation, and the lasting legacies of colonial rule, while examining movements of resistance, liberation, and self-determination in the United States and around the world. (more…)

In Cast Out, civil rights lawyer Joseph Margulies insists that those who commit even the most heinous crimes are one of us and should be judged in a spirit of forgiveness. He explains that American society is too often unforgiving, preferring to cast out those we consider irredeemable by fixating narrowly on the question, “What (more…)

Busboys and Poets Books welcomes author Mahmoud Khalil for a conversation with journalist Ryan Grim about Khalil’s new memoir, No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention. In his first book, Khalil recounts his experience as a Palestinian graduate student and legal resident of the United States, including his detention by U.S. immigration authorities following (more…)

Join us for a wonderful, thought-provoking evening to launch Scott’s new book “Human-Centered Schools” with great food at a fun venue. You can buy the book directly at Busboys at the launch event! “Instead of doubling down on high stakes accountability, what would it look like if we created more human-centered schools that prioritize people, (more…)

Is AI a bubble or humanity’s last invention? An existing harm or an existential threat? Obsolete cuts through the hype and false binaries to answer all the AI questions you have, while raising some you probably aren’t prepared for. Many today don’t get further than seeing AI as a boondoggle—a new shiny object for techno-capitalists (more…)