Places of Protest: The Easterner

This site is attempting to play with the nature of the past's influence and resonance within the present: taking protest at EWU, and The Easterner's portrayal of it, as its focus. While nostalgia for an imagined past has reared its ugly head in the U.S.'s current and divisive political atmosphere, the foundations of modern liberalism, whatever that might mean, also finds its place in the same history. It is fallacious to appeal to the past, or tradition, as the benchmark for right action, but to recognize the past's persistence, being neither dead nor alive, and equivocal nature, containing a multitude of conflicting voices, ought to complicate our understanding of the present. I hope you enjoy, and that this project can elucidate, to some degree, how meaning interacts with context, historical in particular, and those who perceive it, but with a particular interest in how this is reflected in politics (also in EWU's political history).