Paulo Freire’s Critical Pedagogy: A Description and American Application

Often, I hear discussions in academic circles on the cycle of poverty and the racial achievement gap. The discussion centers Continue reading →

The Taylorist Classroom?

In the latest issue of Jacobin, Shawn Gude argues that the neoliberal education reform movement, in pushing for standardized testing, Continue reading →

The (Short) (Modern) Historiography of Gabriel’s Rebellion

In the summer of 2012, I ended up in New Haven to take a couple of courses at Yale. There Continue reading →

‘White Trash’ means Working Class

What’s disturbing about frequent American-left discourse about the South is the absolute disdain with which many liberals treat working class Continue reading →

Foucault and Criticism

Foucault’s aestheticism and anti-foundationalism are targets of scorn among critical theorists like Jürgen Habermas. How can a perspectivism that acknowledges Continue reading →

Logic of the Global Arms Trade

For all of the recent noise in the United States about gun control, one glaring issue has been notoriously absent: Continue reading →

Birth of the Blog: Plans for 2013

Starting a blog, or any publication, is a hazardous journey. Ours is just begun, full of terrible perils and great Continue reading →

Debt and Credit

Debt became one of the primary concerns of populist movements emerging in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. In Continue reading →