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The Public Intellectual
Progressive academics address important social issues.
Selling Out New York City’s Public Schools: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner and the Politics of Corporate “Leadership”
Politicians, anti-public intellectuals and conservative-leaning media pundits no longer ask what kind of education is needed in a democratic society.
Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken Over by the Mega Rich
Freire is one of the most important educators of the 20th century and is considered one of the most important theorists of "critical pedagogy."
Living in the Age of Imposed Amnesia: The Eclipse of Democratic Formative Culture
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 …
Business Culture and the Death of Public Education: The Triumph of Management Over Leadership
Management divorced from leadership privatizes hope, deskills teachers and treats students as consumers.
Farewell Mon Amour: Prospects on Democracy’s Electoral Defeat
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 …
When Generosity Hurts: Bill Gates, Public School Teachers and the Politics of Humiliation
High stakes accountability and punishing modes of leadership, regardless of the damage they wreak on students and teachers, are now the only game in town when it comes to …
Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability
Any rigorous conception of youth must take into account the inescapable intersection of the personal, social, political and pedagogical embodied by young people.
Racialized Memories and Class Identities – Thinking About Glenn Beck’s and Rush Limbaugh’s America
Racism today has been both reconfigured and made invisible with regard to its real victims.
States of Paralysis: America’s Surrender to the Spectacle of Terror
The spectacle of terror and fear has developed a singular focus of communication and control.
The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism
We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual, a disappearance that marks with disgrace a particularly dangerous period in American history. …