Preamble: The exchange below is between Sam Harris and Noam Chomsky. For some background please see the links provided here: Link 1 and Link 2. For more please see: Link 3 and Harris’s “Final thoughts on Chomsky.” Noam gave his … Continue reading An exchange between Sam Harris and Noam Chomsky: censored by Sam Harris
Noam Chomsky (2012): The emerging New World Order, its roots, our legacy [Credit: Sajjad Jafari] Noam Chomsky is an activist and an emeritus professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This work is licensed under a … Continue reading Noam Chomsky: The emerging New World Order, its roots, our legacy
by Murray Bookchin It is politically restorative to look with a fresh eye at The Manifesto of the Communist Party (to use its original title), written before Marxism was overlaid by reformist, postmodernist, spiritual, and psychological commentaries. From an examination … Continue reading The Communist Manifesto: insights and problems
by Henry A. Giroux The danger is that a global, universally interrelated civilization may produce barbarians from its own midst by forcing millions of people into conditions which, despite all appearances, are the conditions of savages. — Hannah Arendt, The … Continue reading Domestic terrorism, youth and the politics of disposability
by Louis Althusser Marxism constitutes one of the main currents of contemporary thought. By now, there is no counting the works that set out to expound, combat, or even ‘supersede’ it. It is already no easy task to find the … Continue reading On Marxism
by Franco Moretti and Dominique Pestre What can quantitative linguistic analysis tell us about the operations and outlook of the international financial institutions? At first glance, the words most frequently used in the World Bank’s Annual Reports give an impression … Continue reading Bankspeak: the language of World Bank reports
by Henry A. Giroux The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to … Continue reading Terrorism, violence, and the culture of madness
by Henry A. Giroux We now live at a time in which institutions that were meant to limit human suffering and misfortune and protect the public from the excesses of the market have been either weakened or abolished.[1] The consequences … Continue reading Higher education and the politics of disruption
by Peter McLaren As critical educators we take pride in our search for meaning, and our metamorphosis of consciousness has taken us along many different paths, to different places, if not in a quest for truth, then at least to … Continue reading Comrade Jesus: an epistolic manifesto
by Henry A. Giroux What happens to the memory of history when it ceases to be testimony? – James Young[1] At a time when both political parties, anti-public intellectual pundits and mainstream news sources view the purpose of higher education … Continue reading Higher education and the promise of insurgent public memory
Philosophers for Change 