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The Public Intellectual
Progressive academics address important social issues.
Series Introduction
Progressive academics address important social issues in a language that is both rigorous and accessible.
The Public Intellectual Project
Progressive academics address important social issues in a language that is both rigorous and accessible.
The 2022 Midterms Are a Referendum on the Future of Democracy in the US
The coming election will show whether the mass of voters in the U.S. support democracy or fascism.
We Need a New Language of Resistance Amid Far Right’s Calls for Civil War
The left must accentuate and embrace a language that is forward-looking and offers the possibility for real change.
The US Is Descending Into a Crisis of Overt Fascism. There’s Still a Way Out.
The right is seeking to steal elections and deputizing vigilantes to constrain our rights. U.S. democracy is in peril.
To End Mass Shootings, We Need to Change the Deeper Structure of Life in the US
Resistance is the only option, and it has to be educational, structural, bold and disruptive.
Nonstop Corporate News on Ukraine Is Fueling Support for Unchecked US Militarism
The shock of war has been increasingly transformed into a cinematic spectacle used to fan the flames of militarism.
Convoy Movement Isn’t a Struggle Over Freedom, It’s an Attempt to Kill Democracy
Anti-democratic forces like the trucker convoy are subverting the idea of freedom in service of right-wing extremism.
We Can’t Let Radical Hope Disappear Into the Abyss of Authoritarianism
We must construct a new language of hope that allows us to imagine a future in which democracy can breathe.
Amid Apocalyptic Cynicism, Let’s Embrace Radical Hope in the New Year
The new year should be rooted in dreams that reject a vision of the future as simply a continuation of the present.
GOP’s Banning of Books and Attack on Teachers Expose the Party’s Rising Fascism
The Republican Party makes clear that educational practices that inform and liberate are a threat to its politics.
Jim Crow Politics Have Descended on Education
For the GOP, higher education is now a battleground for conducting a race war waged in the spirit of the Confederacy.