democracy
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Trump’s Neo-Nazis and the Rise of Illiberal Democracy
The authoritarian drama unfolding across the United States has many registers and includes state violence against immigrants, right-wing populist violence against mosques and synagogues, and attacks on Muslims, Black people and others who do not fit into the vile script… Continue reading
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Henry A. Giroux | Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University
Across the globe, the forces of casino capitalism are on the march. With the return of the Gilded Age and its dream worlds of consumption, privatization and deregulation, not only are democratic values and social protections at risk, but the… Continue reading
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“Democracy”, Crisis, and Control
Ted Asregadoo speaks with U.C. Santa Barbara sociology professor, William I. Robinson, about the crisis of global capitalism and social democratic ways to address the financial, ecological, and social crises wrought by this system. Related articles Society of Control (keithwaynebrown.com)… Continue reading
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8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
My good sister, Stephanie E., with whom I am reading Paulo Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed sent me this article yesterday on FB. It details what the situation that Henry Giroux has been talking about in such texts as Youth… Continue reading
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Maybe There is Something Wrong with our Notion of Paradise
Slavoj Žižek, one of the more public philosophers of our day, considers the difference between revolution and reformation. On which cusp do we find ourselves today? He identifies two traps that must be avoided in order to answer the question… Continue reading
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Henry A. Wallace, The Danger of American Fascism
A 1944 piece very much worth consideration by then Vice President Wallace. The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people… Continue reading
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The Rise of Democratic Schools and ‘Solutionaries’…
Twenty years ago at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, a 12-year-old girl from Canada, “silenced the world for six minutes” with her raw and powerful oration lambasting adults for dumping the problems they created onto the… Continue reading
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A Liberal Moment – NYTimes.com
Still hard to believe, I told a friend the other day while trying to fathom the election results, that pot is legal in my state, gays are free to marry, and a black man who vowed to raise taxes on… Continue reading
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Romney, Ryan, and The Devil’s Budget: Will America Keep Its Soul?
Budgets are moral documents. National, state, and local budgets are commitments about where and how to carry out the work of America’s soul, or to abandon it. A national budget that abandons the Public and the freedoms it gives us… Continue reading
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