Truthout
The Public Intellectual
Progressive academics address important social issues.
Tiger Woods and the Branding of Public Discourse
The real tragedy of Tiger Woods's career is that all he really modeled for young people and the larger public was the shallow notion that talent and fame can …
Market-Driven Hysteria and the Politics of Death
Market-driven principles of deregulation, radical individualism and privatization penetrate all aspects of daily life.
Tortured Memories and the Culture of War
It is difficult to imagine how any democracy could not be corrupted when war becomes the foundation of politics.
Schools and the Pedagogy of Punishment
Students are being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in lockdown schools that resemble prisons
The Spectacle of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy
The image of the public sphere has given way to the spectacle of unbridled intolerance and ignorance.
Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle
The growing dominance of a right-wing media forged in a pedagogy of hate has become a crucial element providing numerous platforms for a culture of cruelty.
Obama’s View of Education Is Stuck in Reverse
Educational reform for the Obama administration “starts with testing and ends with data and more testing.”
Children of the Recession: Remembering “Manchild in the Promised Land”
The hybridized concept of “manchild” marks a space in which innocence is lost and childhood stolen.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the New Racism: Getting Beyond the Politics of Denial
The public morality of American life and social policy regarding matters of racial justice are increasingly subject to a politics of denial.
Child Beauty Pageants: A Scene From the “Other America”
The other America is the at times glitzy, often gaudy world of rampant commodification and sexualization.