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The Public Intellectual
Progressive academics address important social issues.
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![Glenn Beck speaks at CPAC, February 20, 2010.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2010/09/4392739711_c562e906b6_ob-400x300.jpg)
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.
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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.
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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. …
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Separating Church and Hate: Irrationality and Anti-Muslim Stereotyping
The demonization of Islam as a religion and of its adherents as individuals has reached the level of hysteria within the United States.
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Gutting Public Education: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Opportunism
America's political and economic elites have declared a war on working, middle-class and poor Americans. Now that war is coming to a head with the draconian cuts in education, …
![Education Secretary Arne Duncan addresses the opening session of the first federal Bullying Prevention Summit August 11, 2010 in Washington, DC.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2010/06/GettyImages-103340986-400x300.jpg)
Why Duncan’s Corporate-Based Schools Can’t Deliver an Education That Matters
Public schooling is more and more being shaped by a pedagogy of containment, security and conformity that undermines critical thought.
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Teachers Without Jobs and Education Without Hope
The United States' choice to deal with its financial crisis by further weakening public and higher education is devastating.
![Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh as zombies](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2010/06/4688603903_6df23a2060_o-400x300.jpg)
Revenge of the Zombies: Palin, Beck, Limbaugh and the Return of Dark Times
The new zombies have an increasing presence in the death chambers of high finance, the highest reaches of government and in the forefront of mainstream media.
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Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of Reform
We must take matters of education seriously if we are going to survive as a democracy.
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In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis
We need a new language for understanding public education as formative for democratic institutions.