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Disney, Casino Capitalism and the Exploitation of Young Boys: Beyond the Politics of Innocence
The potential for lucrative profits to be made off the spending habits and economic influence of kids has certainly not been lost on Disney.
Commodifying Kids: The Forgotten Crisis
The current crisis offers an opportunity to question the ways in which children's culture has been corrupted by rampant commercialization, commodification and consumption.
Locked Out and Locked Up: Youth Missing in Action From Obama’s Stimulus Plan
Young people in the US face a fragile quality of life.
The Greatest Greatness of George W. Bush
George W. Bush's greatness will be defined by how we rise to overcome and undo what he has done.
Beyond Bailouts: On the Politics of Education After Neoliberalism
How is it possible to imagine a more equitable transformation in government and economics without a simultaneous transformation in culture, consciousness, social identities and values?
Obama’s Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling
Unless Duncan is willing to reinvent himself, the national agenda he will develop for education will leave a lot more kids behind than it helps.
War Talk, the Death of the Social, and Disappearing Children: A Lesson for Obama
War is now defined almost exclusively as a punitive and militaristic process.
Henry Giroux: Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education
Academic Chronis Polychroniou interviews Henry Giroux, a professor in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.
On the Shoulders of Giants
Efforts to place Obama outside of history are only possible in a society that treats history like yesterday's garbage.
Disposable Youth in a Suspect Society
The “war on youth” not only attempts to erase the democratic legacies of the past, but disavows any commitment to the future.