The Republican Party makes clear that educational practices that inform and liberate are a threat to its politics.
The Public Intellectual
Progressive academics address important social issues in a language that is both rigorous and accessible.
For the GOP, higher education is now a battleground for conducting a race war waged in the spirit of the Confederacy.
The conservative wrath against critical thinking is manufactured ignorance parading as “patriotic pedagogy.”
Aronowitz was a scholar and public intellectual, the likes of whom we will never see again.
In the ongoing flight from political and social responsibility, manufactured ignorance is the new face of submission.
Activists who are working to defund the police are also part of a collective struggle to end neoliberal capitalism.
Fox News, Breitbart, Newsmax, One America News, and more are flooding the media space with racist and pro-Trump lies.
Free-market fundamentalism, religious fundamentalism and manufactured ignorance turned the GOP toward neofascism.
To counter the fascist politics in the GOP, we need liberatory forms of education to expand the public imagination.
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio made the ludicrous claim that impeaching Trump was simply an expression of “cancel culture.”