StickWithANose

In today’s Slate, Jacob Weisberg lays out the problems facing our nation without candy coating, and it speaks to a subject that is near and dear to my heart. The primary issue facing our nation is, at its root, an educational one.
In trying to explain why our political paralysis seems to have gotten so much [...]

As someone with a background in Cultural Studies, this piece from the BBC hit home for me. Cultural Studies emerged from Birmingham, England in response to the rise of Thatcherism. The central question that occupied the minds of those at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies was the question of why it is that poor [...]

After Beck and doughy pantload served up their own particular view of ‘Liberal Fascism’ this past Friday night, real historians are [at last] pushing back against this tragic re-writing of history. For those who aren’t politically active, this may all appear to be much ado about nothing, however it is deadly serious. The only real [...]

You see, it works like this: Poor people benefit from Walmart’s ability to push down prices on its suppliers which leads to the out-sourcing of jobs and unemployment which creates more poor people who benefit from Walmart’s ability to push down prices on its suppliers…  Simple really….

You would think that the meeting of these two minds would have caused some irreparable tear in the time-space continuum. Alas, all that we get for sitting through this most painful of interviews is vague references to changing an ambiguous “system” that is never quite defined just as how these two public intellectuals fit, or [...]

Looks like the only way to motivate the children of the bourgeois to take to the streets is when they feel betrayed by a football coach…
Sad, really… With all that is wrong with the world you would think that the hope and idealism of the young would be an active force in politics, but the [...]

Yes, Cheney uses Politico as a conduit. Politico runs with it, because those ‘articles’ generate hits [ergo profit].

My continued critique of Teach for America is often greeted with scoffs of disbelief: How could top graduates from top schools not turn out to be great teachers? Easy. The assumption behind such a question is that all that one requires to become an effective teacher is to be knowledgeable about ones subject area. Thus, [...]

In light of my recent turn toward raw pessimism over our current state of affairs here in the banana republic of the USA, I was intrigued when I came across this op-ed originally published in the Dallas Morning Star that appears to be channeling the Frankfurt school of political philosophy and [as far as I'm [...]