Truthout
The Public Intellectual
Progressive academics address important social issues.
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. …
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.
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, …
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.