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On the Internet, No One Knows You’re a Student
By Adam Kingsmith An old digital adage posits that on the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog. The phrase is in reference to the emancipating qualities of cyberspace. By virtue of the Internet’s unbridled creative licensing, gender, race, age, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Kingsmith, higher education, social media, students
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The War Against Teachers as Public Intellectuals in Dark Times
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Tagged Henry A. Giroux, Public Intellectuas, Sandy Hook, teachers, Truthout
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Carol Becker: Artists as Public Intellectuals
Watch Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts, speak on how artists are redefining their role in the 21st century.
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Hamilton, Hip-Hop and Lee Reed
A true Hamilton hip-hop legend, Lee Reed is also one of the city’s formative public intellectuals. In this interview he gives his take on intellectualism, activism, the Hamilton hip-hop community, and politics. Lee Reed Interview – Public Intellectuals Project … Continue reading
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Tagged artists, cultural workers, Hamilton, hip-hop, Lee Reed
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Reality Denial: Steven Pinker’s Apologetics for Western-Imperial Violence
By Edward S. Herman and David Peterson It is amusing to see how eagerly the establishment media have welcomed Steven Pinker’s 2011 tome, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,[1] which explains not only that “violence has … Continue reading
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Tagged David Peterson, Edward Herman, genocide, imperialism, Steven Pinker, violence
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The Brutal Reign of the Corporate State
Across the globe, punishing states have emerged from the seamless union of transnational corporate power with state-based machinery of permanent warfare—and have produced devastating social and environmental consequences. As Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco astutely observe in Days of Destruction, … Continue reading
Canadian Law & Order: One Bill to Rule Them All
Skyrocketing federal expenditures on violent and authoritarian forms of social control make the government’s current appeal to fiscal austerity laughable. In fact, the government’s own irresponsible spending decisions will contribute to a looming budget disaster that it may then claim … Continue reading
Alex Hundert, Canada’s Latest Political Prisoner
On June 26, 2012, 31-year-old activist and community organizer Alex Hundert was sentenced to 13.5 months in prison, having been accused and arrested by police on charges of conspiracy prior to the G20 protests in 2010. Zach Ruiter and Megan … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Hundert, G20, social movements, Toronto Media Co-op, Zach Ruiter
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