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Tag: anti-public intellectuals

The intentional road to hell

May 26, 2015July 6, 2018 sanjay perera

by Sanjay Perera The road to hell is paved with good intentions. — An aphorism[1] Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them. This may seem an extraordinary claim, but it … Continue reading The intentional road to hell

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An exchange between Sam Harris and Noam Chomsky: censored by Sam Harris

May 19, 2015May 19, 2015 sanjay perera

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

Higher education and the new brutalism

November 11, 2014November 11, 2014 sanjay perera

by  Henry A. Giroux Across the globe, a new historical conjuncture is emerging in which the attacks on higher education as a democratic institution and on dissident public voices in general – whether journalists, whistleblowers or academics – are intensifying … Continue reading Higher education and the new brutalism

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Thinking dangerously in an age of political betrayal

July 22, 2014August 20, 2014 sanjay perera

by Henry A. Giroux Thinking is not the intellectual reproduction of what already exists anyway. As long as it doesn’t break off, thinking has a secure hold on possibility. . . . Open thinking points beyond itself. — Theodor Adorno … Continue reading Thinking dangerously in an age of political betrayal

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Anti-public intellectuals and the tyranny of manufactured forgetting

July 1, 2014July 1, 2014 sanjay perera

by Henry A. Giroux For in the world in which we live it is no longer merely a question of the decay of collective memory and declining consciousness of the past, but of the aggressive [assault on] whatever memory remains, … Continue reading Anti-public intellectuals and the tyranny of manufactured forgetting

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