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Democratic Socialists Are Running for School Board — and Winning
Whenever the far-right gains political traction in America, it’s usually at least partly due to an unglamorous, relatively inexpensive tactic: running for school board. Throwing their energy into local...
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Palestine, the Harvard Controversy, and Attacks on Academic Freedom
Norman Finkelstein discusses Palestine, the Harvard controversy and attacks on academic freedom with Marc Lamont Hill.
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Claudine Gay Faced Racism and Zionist Ire — She Also Failed Palestinian Students
On January 2, 2024, Claudine Gay became the shortest-serving president of Harvard University. What could have been a presidential tenure of transformative actions befitting of the hopeful promises of...
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Israel’s War on Education in Gaza
South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice to institute proceedings against Israel for its genocidal attack on Gaza makes for a chilling assessment of grievous violations of...
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Education is Anarchy
Teachers are not born as teachers; teachers are inspired by their teachers. Although there is competition for the title ‘the oldest profession’ from what may be deemed less salubrious vocations,...
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The Uber Rich Are Funding “National School Choice Week” to Attack Public Schools
The last week of every January, right-wing groups like Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity promote “National School Choice Week” (NSCW). Unlike other commemorative national weeks or months — such...
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North Carolina’s Legislature Wants to Destroy Public Schools
Susan Book says that, in theory, she “should be the poster child for private school choice” because of the “hell” her family went through at her son Emerson’s Wake County, North Carolina, public...
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The Decline Of The Humanities Studies Around The World Is An Enormous Risk...
According to Statistics Canada, student enrolment in the humanities has been declining since 2008. For all postsecondary students, humanities enrolments have dropped by 50 percent over the past 30...
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Who Are the ‘Moms’ for Liberty?
The Moms for Liberty (M4L) webpage states, “Our founders are Tiffany and Tina, moms on a mission to stoke the fires of liberty.” But in truth, the founders are Tiffany Justice, Tina Descovich, and...
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The War on Education—in Gaza and at Home
On January 17, after having first occupied it as a military base and interrogation center, the Israeli army employed scores of landmines to blow up Israa University, the last institution of higher...
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Elections On, University Off
On the evening of February 11, men in uniform, some wearing helmets and carrying shields, stood guard at each of the entrances to the university professors’ residence in Dakar. Their vans surrounded...
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The New School’s Student Workers Forge a New Union
Following the whirlwind of the 2022 ACT-UAW 7902 Part-Time Faculty strike at The New School, Aarya Kini and Emily Li have had their hands full with a burgeoning new union: New Student Workers Union...
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DHS Using Hamas to Expand Its Reach on College Campuses
The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up its efforts to penetrate college campuses under the guise of fighting “foreign malign influence,” according to documents and memos obtained by The...
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University of Portsmouth Staff & Students Call for Gaza Ceasefire, Academic...
We, the undersigned, are University of Portsmouth (UoP) staff members, students and alumni who are deeply concerned about the actions of the Israeli state in Gaza (and its increased violence and...
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E-Books Can Subvert Book Bans, But Corporate Profit-Seeking Stands in the Way
The past few years have seen record e-book lending for libraries — as well as record profits for OverDrive, the company that provides e-books access for 95 percent of libraries in the U.S. (OverDrive’s...
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Everyday Fascism: Brecht’s Warning about The Serpent’s Egg
“And therefore think him as a serpent’s eggWhich hatch’d, would as his kind grow mischievous;And kill him in the shell” – Brutus in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar The brilliant scholar, Paul Gilroy, once...
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Student-Led Climate Action Is Flourishing In DeSantis’s Florida
The University of Florida made history last month when its student senate became the first at a public university to pass a climate resolution in support of Green New Deal policies. The “Green New Deal...
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Youth and Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability
Breaking Silos · Episode 4 with Henry A. Giroux: Youth and Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability Henry A. Giroux (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) discusses his essay, “Youth and...
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Rising Talk of School Closures Fuels Expansion of the Community Schools Movement
“Instead of seizing the chance to close schools… communities across the country are pushing their districts to think about schools differently and the possibilities this moment gives us.” Judging by a...
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Cultural Politics And Public Intellectuals In The Age Of Emerging Fascism
Introduction When I wrote “Cultural Studies, Public Pedagogy, and the Responsibility of Intellectuals, in 2004,” I wanted to stress the contribution that cultural studies made for educators in...
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