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
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
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
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
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
