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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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What Are Academic Boycotts For?
In 2004, academics and intellectuals launched the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and called on international scholars to initiate a boycott of Israeli...
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Isra Hirsi On the Resilience of Columbia University’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
On Wednesday, students at Columbia University and its women’s college, Barnard, pitched tents on the lawns at the school’s campus commons. They planned to stay until Columbia divested from companies...
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Students Sue Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for Silencing Black History
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is perhaps best known for the “Little Rock Nine,” the first Black students to walk through the school’s grand front doors. The year was 1957, three years...
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Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at...
Palestinian solidarity protests and encampments are appearing on college campuses from Massachusetts to California to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza and to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid....
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The Most Important Thing I Teach My Students
Friends, The most important thing I teach my students is to seek out people who disagree with them. That’s because the essence of learning is testing one’s ideas, assumptions, and values. And what...
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Elites in the Global North Are Scared to Talk About Palestine
Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians with abandon. Al Jazeera published a story about the destruction of 24 hospitals in Gaza, each of them bombed mercilessly by the...
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Columbia, NYU, The New School…MIT, Tufts, Emerson… Berkeley, Chicago, Chapel...
I went to MIT, class of 1969, so I was a Senior in 1968. It is now 2024 not the late sixties, but rebellion for change is again in the air. I think it is just getting revved up. I can feel it. I’ll bet...
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Dr. Henry Giroux on Pedagogy of Resistance
EPISODE SUMMARY In this thought-provoking episode, Dr. Henry Giroux discusses the challenges facing education in an increasingly polarized political aspect. He argues that the pandemic has intensified...
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Can You Hear, Do You See?
Mr. or Ms. President of any and every college. The facts over there, in Gaza, are on display to see. The facts over there are bellowing visibly and even bragging openly their intent lest anyone meant...
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“We Don’t Want to Trade in the Blood of Palestinians”: Voices of Students &...
Nearly 300 peaceful protesters were arrested over the weekend as student-led Gaza solidarity encampments across U.S. university and college campuses face an intensifying crackdown. Democracy Now! spoke...
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