from The Chronicle, by Jack Stripling, via Raya Fidel. Thousands of protesters gathered on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol here on Tuesday to voice their opposition to a fast-moving proposal that would strip the union bargaining rights for University of Wisconsin faculty and staff members, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Chomsky’
February 16th, 2011 - 11:47 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
UW (the other one) Students and Professors Rally Against Governor
January 15th, 2011 - 11:40 am § in Uncategorized
The Global Class, Is Fascism Next?
Chrystia Freeland of the Atlantic has a very important article. The Rise of the New Global Class, a Prelude to Fascism? Christia Freeland’s piece in the Atlantic is a brilliant and frightening vision not of the future, but of a present that is likely summed up best by one word “fascism.&[...]
January 12th, 2011 - 1:08 am § in Uncategorized
Humor: Free Speech and Political Correctness
I recommend this for relief from the current cause of stress. Daphne Patai – FIRE’s CFN 2010 from FIRE on Vimeo.[...]
January 9th, 2011 - 1:05 pm § in Religion
Atheism: The end of the debate
An Essay by a Professor of Theology, Keith Parsons Over the past ten years I have published, in one venue or another, about twenty things on the philosophy of religion. I have a book on the subject, God and Burden of Proof, and another criticizing Christian apologetics, Why I am not a Christian. Dur[...]
Francis Fukyama: How Reagan Destroyed Capitalism
Fukyama, Reagan’s ideological theorist and author of “The End of History,” is now writing that Reaganomics destroyed the balance between individual ambition and liberal democracy needed to make a free market work. In essence he says that the USA is no longer at the end of histo[...]
January 2nd, 2011 - 12:47 am § in Misc.
Public Workers Facing Outrage as Budget Crises Grow
I think this is something we really need to worry about. . From an article in today’s New York Times: Michael Tini, 54, … a card dealer in Atlantic City, taps his head, (and says) “Look, I understand that teachers are the brains of the operation, O.K.? But my hours are cut, and my [...]
December 30th, 2010 - 9:02 am § in Misc.
Historians Find Myriad Errors In Virginia History Textbooks
Among The Errors … That Many African-Americans Fought For The South During The Civil War … That The Confederacy Included 12 States … & That The U.S. Entered WWI In 1916 Why is this NOT surprising? Liberal and Conservatives all see t believe that their beliefs can be legislate[...]
December 29th, 2010 - 11:26 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Third World America, II
see also Part I: going to school on a Native American Reservation. Robert Reich’s summary of the woes of our declining education system seems almost a continuation of the story in Part 1 of a young American trying to get an education under the third world standards of life on an Indian reserva[...]
December 28th, 2010 - 12:01 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Cut the loopholes, fund REAL needs.
Washington’s ref 1098, a surtax on the very wealthy, succumbed to an effort to paint it as tax increase. Now State Rep. Larry Seaquist (D-Gig Harbor) is offering a very clever alternative: ask the voters to fund real needs by eliminating nonproductive tax preferences, loopholes. David Go[...]
December 18th, 2010 - 9:44 am § in Misc.
A letter to my students
Michael O’Hare, professor of public policy | 8/24/10 | from Berkeley Blog Welcome to Berkeley, probably still the best public university in the world. Meet your classmates, the best group of partners you can find anywhere. The percentages for grades on exams, papers, etc. in my courses always [...]