Link to a video of a speech by Yanis Varoufakis:
“How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails”
Bonus Link: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism
Tag: Education
Joanne Barkan – Death By a Thousand Cuts
Link to an article by Joanne Barkan:
Bonus links: “A Guide to the Corporations That Are De-Funding Public Education & Opposing Striking Teachers” and “The Assault on Veterans’ Health Care” and An American Utopia
Erin Thompson – Minority Lawyers Hanging From Their Own Bootstraps
Link to an article by Erin Thompson:
“Minority Lawyers Hanging From Their Own Bootstraps: How Law Schools Fail Those Who Seek Justice”
Bonus links: The Trouble With Diversity and …And the Poor Get Prison and “The Decline of the Peoplelaw Sector” and “The Echo Chamber: A Small Group of Lawyers and Its Outsized Influence at the U.S. Supreme Court”
Wayne Au – The Socialist Case Against the SAT
Link to an article by Wayne Au:
Alan Nasser – Could Student Loans Lead to Debt Prison?
Jerry White – Teachers Unions Intensify Efforts to Suppress Growing Class Struggle in the US
Link to an article by Jerry White:
“Teachers Unions Intensify Efforts to Suppress Growing Class Struggle in the US”
Bonus link: Poor People’s Movements and “Making Greater Possibilities Inconceivable: Another Thought or Two on the Logic of Lesser Evilism”
Sarah Bruch & Joe Soss – The Lessons Students Learn
Link to an article by Sarah Bruch & Joe Soss:
Bonus links: “Red Diaper Babies” and Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Richard Shaull Quote (“There is no such thing as a neutral educational process. Education either functions as an instrument that is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes ‘the practice of freedom,’ the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”) and Deschooling Society and The Struggle for the Meaning of Society As Such and “Elite Universities Are Turning Our Kids Into Corporate Stooges”
Torkil Lauesen & Gabriel Kuhn – Radical Theory and Academia
Link to an article by Torkil Lauesen & Gabriel Kuhn:
“Radical Theory and Academia: A Thorny Relationship”
Bonus links: The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men and “The Professor’s Literature of Protest” and “The Forms of Capital” and Crowds and Party and “Lacan Between Cultural Studies And Cognitivism” and “Cracks in the Wall of Capitalism: The Zapatistas and the Struggle to Decolonize Science”
Lester Spence – Why Baltimore Doesn’t Heat Its Schools
Link to an article by Lester Spence:
“Why Baltimore Doesn’t Heat Its Schools”
Bonus links: “The Left Hand and the Right Hand of the State” and Liberalism: A Counter-History and “Corporate Welfare Is Draining Baltimore”
Alexander Livingston & Ed Quish – John Dewey’s Experiments in Democratic Socialism
Link to an article by Alexander Livingston & Ed Quish: