In what is clearly an act of procrastination, the author reflects on the end-of-semester weariness and what it all amounts to in a world that continues to suffer.

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The luxury condo building in the middle of Union Seminary, affectionately known as the “tower,” is slowly opening up to residents. Black studies scholars help us make sense of such a display of capitalism and contradiction.