INTRODUCTION

Reimagining Capitalism and Activism

IT WAS VALENTINE’S DAY, and hearts were going to be irreparably broken. On a sunny Wednesday, February 14, 2018, a nineteen-year-old gunman walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and opened fire on students, faculty, and staff. In the span of about ten minutes, seventeen people were killed, fourteen of them teenagers, and countless lives and families were broken.

In the aftermath, the response from the public and the politicians echoed those of many other mass shootings since the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado nearly two decades earlier. A shocked nation and a shattered community grieved unimaginable loss while politicians offered thoughts and prayers ...

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