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Capitalism

The PMC Has Children

Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

April 8, 2021 • by Catherine Liu

_____ From the very moment of conception, which for professional managerial class (PMC) parents is always a “choice,” the future child and infant possesses “potential” that has to be both optimized and maximized. PMC mothers have to do prenatal yoga while setting up intrauterine Mozart streams on pregnant bellies. Preparing for ...

Higher Ed

The Education Trap

Schools and the remaking of inequality in Boston

March 22, 2021 • by Cristina Groeger

————— Despite its centrality in public life and scholarly debate, education, surprisingly, has not been a chief focus of political or economic histories of the modern United States. The role of schools, however, has been fundamental to American historical development in several key ways. Politically, education was a key driver of ...

Education

Student Loans: The Origins of a Racket

The road to student loan hell was paved with good intentions

February 18, 2021 • by Devan Lindey

"Education can lift people and propel the country’s economy, but it can’t do that if it leaves many of its beneficiaries weighed down by life-altering amounts of debt." - Devon Lindey ...

Activism

Black Swans No More!

When Things Fall Apart, a New Role for Community-Engaged Scholars

February 15, 2021 • by Trebor Scholz

As the pandemic has worn on, I have found myself devoting more and more of my time to conversations with researchers who have one foot in the world of alternative economies. I talked with dozens of Ph.D. students who self-identify as scholar-activists; they don’t want to stop at an analysis ...

Higher Ed

A Relevant Education

The New School in the 1960s

February 12, 2021 • by Howard Kirschenbaum

———— After such a vital summer of civil rights work in Mississippi in 1964, I could not see returning to the ivory tower of Johns Hopkins, where most academic courses seemed to have no relevance to the real world issues that concerned me. Shortly after returning from the Democratic National Convention ...

Education

Bridging the Gap: When Students from Two Very Different Campuses Find a Path to Understanding Each Other

Two reputations, two narratives, one goal: to listen, learn and value each other

February 4, 2021 • by Kevin Brown and Meredith Raimondo

"From our vantage point as Deans of Student Affairs (at two very different small liberal arts institutions), the process towards healing the divides in our nation could only be achieved through finding our collective humanity, not through vanquishing our alleged enemies. We wanted to keep the professed sentiments of President ...

Bridging the Gap: When Students from Two Very Different Campuses Find a Path to Understanding Each Other

Activism

What Conventional Histories of New York’s Struggles in the 1970s Leave Out

Remembering the heroic activism of the Bronx’s Evelina López Antonetty

January 27, 2021 • by Linus Glenhaber

The destructive decisions New York made up to that point had caused the Bronx literally to burn. ...

What Conventional Histories of New York’s Struggles in the 1970s Leave Out

Europe & Central Asia

France’s Tale of Two Secularisms

After terrorist attacks rattle France, where will the Republic go from here?

November 18, 2020 • by Hannah Leffingwell

In October, France experienced another spate of terrorist attacks over a span of two weeks. First was the gruesome beheading of an Évreux public-school teacher, Samuel Paty, after he showed a caricature of the prophet Muhammad in his class. The slaying received national attention and the French government responded swiftly, ...

Migration

Separation

Deserts, hurricanes, and classrooms

October 19, 2020 • by Brett Warnke

Personally, these stories brought to mind a student, Jonathan, who recently took my college writing class. He’s a first-year full-time student who manages a fast-food restaurant in City Heights, a dense refugee-packed neighborhood in San Diego. Four years ago, he was my strongest 8th grade English student in middle school. He ...

Education

Teaching Patriotism

Abraham Lincoln’s idea of America

October 8, 2020 • by Steven B. Smith

In the midst of a global pandemic and an economic crisis, President Donald Trump recently found time to convene a Committee on Patriotic Education. In principle this was not a bad idea. The great question of course is how will patriotism be taught, and who will be its teachers? Or, as Karl ...

Democracy

The GOP Reshaped America to Hold Onto Power—Can the Dems Do the Same Thing to Save It?

Mitch McConnell understands holding minority power requires ruthless brutality

September 24, 2020 • by Thom Hartmann

In the power grab to fill the Supreme Court seat announced the same evening as the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mitch McConnell didn’t do anything new. The GOP has a long history of playing hardball power politics. In the late nineteenth century, Republicans added four states (Nevada, Colorado, North ...

The GOP Reshaped America to Hold Onto Power—Can the Dems Do the Same Thing to Save It?

Higher Ed

COVID-19 Mirror on the Wall—Who’s the Bravest College of Them All?

Moving online and volunteering for vaccine trials this Fall requires a more prudent courage than reopening college campuses for classes and football

September 16, 2020 • by Edwin Michael and Eileen Hunt Botting

––––––– The next time you check the COVID-19 dashboard of your favorite university on your laptop screen, imagine asking: Who’s the bravest of them all? Pretend you’re like the Evil Queen in Snow White, who gazes in a mirror, asking who is the fairest of them all, in order to eliminate ...