Michael Sandel: what money can’t buy
Michael Sandel: what money can’t buy Continue reading Michael Sandel: what money can’t buy
Michael Sandel: what money can’t buy Continue reading Michael Sandel: what money can’t buy
by Henry A. Giroux
Donald Trump, declares he likes “the uneducated” — implying that it is better that they stay ignorant than be critically engaged agents — and boasts that he doesn’t read books. Continue reading Taking notes 60: why teachers matter in dark times
Nietzsche: Beyond good and evil (a documentary) Continue reading Nietzsche: beyond good and evil
Derrida: a documantary Continue reading Derrida: a documentary
Is it just to tax the rich to help the poor? John Rawls says we should answer this question by asking what principles you would choose to govern the distribution of income and wealth if you did not know who you were, whether you grew up in privilege or in poverty. Continue reading Justice: what’s the right thing to do?
by Henry A. Giroux
Struggles will only succeed if more progressives embrace an expansive understanding of politics, not fixating singularly on elections or any other issue but rather emphasizing the connections among diverse social movements. Continue reading Taking notes 59: radical politics in the age of American authoritarianism
Debate: Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault–On human nature Continue reading The Noam Chomsky-Michel Foucault debate: On human nature
by Jeff Noonan
The person who loves to think is critically minded. That person is not an undisciplined skeptic, but one who can detect contradictions between principle and practice, and between principles and the values to which they purportedly lead as means. Continue reading Taking notes 58: For the love of thinking: eleven theses
by Henry A. Giroux
Trump’s business practices that some admire are representative of neoliberal capitalism: which has produced human misery, political corruption and inequality throughout the world. Continue reading Taking notes 57: Liberal commentators who are apologists for Trump’s racism
by Henry A. Giroux
In the era of Donald Trump, US politics denotes an age of forgetting civil rights, inclusiveness, democracy but accepting state violence. Continue reading The poisoning of Flint: the specter of domestic terrorism