The following essay is excerpted from the preface to Henry Giroux's "Hearts of Darkness: Torturing Children in the War on Terror" (Paradigm Publishers 2010).…
At a time when memory is being erased and the political relevance of education is dismissed in the language of measurement and…
As a young kid growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, I was always conscious of what it meant to be a white…
When our fears have all been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas "marketplaced," our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy auctioned;…
While the "empire of consumption" has been around for a long time[1], American society in the last 30 years has undergone a…
We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual, a disappearance that marks with disgrace…
[H]e had found the bridge with which to span the abyss that yawns between the ‘no longer and not”‘ yet of history,…
As the Obama administration’s educational reform movement increasingly adopts the interests and values of a “free-market” culture, many students graduate public schooling…
As the recent health care debate has made clear, the decades-long conservative campaign against the alleged abuses of “big government” is far…
It is nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin …
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