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October 4, 2013

The Tragedy Of Rush Limbaugh’s Low Information Voter Theory – Forbes

This is an extremely well thought out article on a fateful turn among conservatives in the early Reagan days, a turn away from trusting in the citizenry toward a kind of aristocratic cynicism. It actually elucidates how and when I… Continue reading

December 18, 2012

Henry A. Giroux | The War Against Teachers as Public Intellectuals in Dark Times

…In the name of austerity, schools are defunded so as to fail and provide an excuse to be turned over to the privatizing advocates of free-market fundamentalism. In this discourse, free-market reform refuses to imagine public education as the provision… Continue reading

December 2, 2012

Is Paul Ryan Making Americans More Favorably Inclined Toward Socialism? | The Nation

…That reactionary Republicans get a little hysterical at the mention of the word “socialism” is not news. But the reaction to there reaction is. No two groups of Americans talk so much about socialism in so many public settings these… Continue reading