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The Public Intellectual
Progressive academics address important social issues.
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![Larry Summers speaks at Fortune Brainstorm TECH at the Aspen Institute Campus, July 19, 2011.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2011/09/5958483634_03617133e4_o-400x300.jpg)
Corporate Media and Larry Summers Team Up to Gut Public Education: Beyond Education for Illiteracy, Vulgarity and a Culture of Cruelty
Corporate power and money are unchecked as they privatize, deregulate and destroy all vestiges of public life.
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Counter-Memory and the Politics of Loss After 9/11
To address our collapsing intellectual and moral visions, we must reclaim and re-imagine those moments of compassion, social relations and democratic ideals that surfaced briefly after 9/11.
![Tea Partiers in Madison, Wisconsin, April 15, 2010.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2011/09/4527524682_ba5e07393c_b-400x300.jpg)
An Unending Crisis – America in the 21st Century
The "credibility" gap has spread from the presidency to the entire political system.
![Henry A. Giroux](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2011/08/9116579256_447b66933a_og-400x300.jpg)
Henry Giroux on Democracy Unsettled: From Critical Pedagogy to the War on Youth
"Theory needs to be rigorous and accessible, and it needs to address not merely the outer limits of disciplinary scholarship but also important social problems."
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Disney, Militarization and the National Security State After 9/11
Disney's cultural products rely on innocence as a rhetorical tool to legitimate dominant relations of power.
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How Disney Magic and the Corporate Media Shape Youth Identity in the Digital Age
Youth are now assaulted by a never-ending proliferation of marketing strategies that colonize their consciousness and daily lives.
![Friends and loved ones gather at the Oslo cathedral to mourn 93 victims killed in twin terror attacks from a bombing in downtown Oslo and a mass shooting on Utoya island on July 24 ,2011, in Oslo, Norway.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2011/08/GettyImages-119763268-400x300.jpg)
Breivik’s Fundamentalist War on Politics, and Ours
The tragic slayings in Norway raise anew serious questions about domestic terrorism and its roots in right-wing ideology and fundamentalist movements.
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From Benetton to Murdoch: The Culture of Money, Shock and Schlock
The aestheticization of shock, difference and glamour misappropriates social consciousness.
![In Philadelphia, budget cuts have led to fire departments closing on a daily rotating basis, delaying response time.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2011/07/3781781996_d5f973ac33_o-e1530567158166-400x300.jpg)
Trickle-Down Cruelty and the Politics of Austerity
In Philadelphia, budget cuts have led to fire departments closing on a daily rotating basis, delaying response time. (Photo: Sam Blackman)
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Nonviolent Revolution Clarified: Five Myths and Realities Behind Egypt’s Uprising
There are a handful of misconceptions that have been parroted repeatedly in media coverage of the "Arab Spring."