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The loose use of lurid pejoratives serves no one well. The terms provoke defensive reactions in the sector which then potentially make a real problem worse. The attacks erode confidence in the higher education system as a whole and perpetuate the use of invectives without tying those terms directly to what’s going on in practice.
On September 24, thousands of people converged in Washington, DC, for the Crime Survivors Speak March on Washington. It was the first such gathering in the nation’s capital for people who have lost loved ones to homicide, as well as survivors of gun violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.
The world sees Japan as a paragon of minimalism. But its hidden clutter culture shows that ‘more’ can be as magical as ‘less’.
Some faculty see corporatization at Columbia—which mirrors trends of increased corporate governance across institutions of higher education—as decentering the University’s academic mission and treating its operation as a business.
On October 16, join Joe Kishore and Jerry White—the Socialist Equality Party’s candidates in the presidential election—and SEP Political Committee member Tom Hall for a discussion of the perspectives and strategic issues which the working class face in the 2024 elections.
As I wrote in my last book Bootstrapped, we can learn from the New Deal 1930s. The way Democrats talked then was much clearer, for example identifying opposing groups like “the workers” and “the bosses.” When the New Deal coalition collapsed in the 1970s, neoliberals took their place. For nearly fifty years, they have made believe that there are no sides—no “bosses” and “workers,” only those who grabbed opportunity and those who didn’t—all while adopting increasingly right–wing talking points about the economy.
