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The Public Intellectual
Progressive academics address important social issues.
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Attacks on Critical Race Theory Seek to Insert Fascist Politics Into Education
The conservative wrath against critical thinking is manufactured ignorance parading as “patriotic pedagogy.”
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Stanley Aronowitz, Who Taught Us Teaching Must Be Political, Has Passed
Aronowitz was a scholar and public intellectual, the likes of whom we will never see again.
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The Right Wing Wants Misinformation and Manufactured Ignorance, Not Democracy
In the ongoing flight from political and social responsibility, manufactured ignorance is the new face of submission.
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To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing
Activists who are working to defund the police are also part of a collective struggle to end neoliberal capitalism.
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Tucker Carlson Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg in Right-Wing Media’s War on Truth
Fox News, Breitbart, Newsmax, One America News, and more are flooding the media space with racist and pro-Trump lies.
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Three Fundamentalisms Are Driving the Resurgence of Fascist Politics in the US
Free-market fundamentalism, religious fundamentalism and manufactured ignorance turned the GOP toward neofascism.
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Threat of Authoritarianism Is No Longer on the Horizon: It’s Arrived in the GOP
To counter the fascist politics in the GOP, we need liberatory forms of education to expand the public imagination.
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Downplaying Trumpism Is Dangerous
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio made the ludicrous claim that impeaching Trump was simply an expression of “cancel culture.”
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Attack on Capitol Affirms Trumpism Will Live On After Trump Leaves White House
The mob violence at the Capitol was reminiscent of the thugs that roamed the streets of Germany in the 1930s.
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Trump Ousted. The Spirit of Insurgent Democracy Is Rising.
Surviving the toxic aftermath of a Trump presidency calls for a radical reimagining of democracy in the U.S.