The Public Intellectual

In his work, Howard Zinn embodied a notion of agency that exhibited a fierce moral courage and a deep propensity for engaged social action.

Rather than being unspoken and unseen, violence in American life has become both visible in its pervasiveness and normalized as a central feature of dominant and popular culture.

It is a possibility – nay, a likelihood - that the link between public agenda and private worries, the very hub of the democratic process, has been broken.

Memories of the university as a citadel of democratic learning have been replaced by a university eager to define itself largely in economic terms.

We no longer live in an age in which history's “winged messengers” bear witness to the suffering of millions.

Politicians, anti-public intellectuals and conservative-leaning media pundits no longer ask what kind of education is needed in a democratic society.

Freire is one of the most important educators of the 20th century and is considered one of the most important theorists of “critical pedagogy.”

We live in an age in which punitive justice and a theater of cruelty have become the defining elements of a mainstream cultural apparatus that trades in historical and …

Management divorced from leadership privatizes hope, deskills teachers and treats students as consumers.

We have become a country in which democracy is no longer a viable dream; rather, it is a living nightmare haunting those who now control the reins of financial …