“I’m just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.”–Tucker Carlson Continue reading A Journal of the Plague Year 2023: Tucker Carlson—the last journalist
But the attacks would not stop. Anonymous trolls on Twitter said people should boycott Levi’s until I’d been fired. So did some of my old gymnastics fans. A dossier of my tweets and all of my online interactions were sent to the CEO by the head of corporate communications. Continue reading Yesterday I was Levi’s brand president. I quit so I could be free
by Peter Neil Kirstein To justify American expansionism, presidential war messages frequently contained nationalistic proclamations of American innocence and virtue. President James Knox Polk in seeking war with Mexico on May 11, 1846 as a mandate of the nation’s “Manifest Destiny,” demonized it as a “menace,” lied that it had invaded the United States and argued war was necessary to protect American democracy. “[W]e are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor, the rights, and the interests of our country.”[1] President William McKinley in asking Congress for a declaration of war to … Continue reading Free speech, war, and academic freedom
by Henry A. Giroux A group of right-wing extremists in the United States would have the American public believe it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of a market society. Comprising this group are the Republican Party extremists, religious fundamentalists such as Rick Santorum, and a host of conservative anti-public foundations funded by billionaires such as the Koch brothers[1] whose pernicious influence fosters the political and cultural conditions for creating vast inequalities and massive human hardships throughout the globe. Their various messages converge in support of neoliberal capitalism and fortress … Continue reading Borderless pedagogy in the Occupy movement
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