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Ernest Mandel discusses the tension in the relationship of university education to capitalist accumulation in p260ff of Late Capitalism . L...

It has been a while since I wrote a year-in-review post--over three years, in fact. It may seem inapposite to post a year -in-review rather ...

I know I need to learn more about critical race theory, and I know the reason I have not done so is that I’m afraid to confront my own raci...

One of the simple ways to dismiss Marx is to say that his communist society could never exist because human nature is greedy and competitiv...

Too often, when Marxists write about popular culture, they come off as grumpy, unhip old poops. Exhibit A: Theodor “Don’t Call Me Sweetie” A...

As long as higher education is construed through ideology, it will be impossible to develop the basis for overturning the social relations...

This is a proposal I wrote this morning for a book chapter. It’s for an anthology about phenomenology.  While pain has been medicalized...

I see two ways of interpreting the situation of non-tenure-track faculty, drawing from Marx in Capital. If we think of hi...

Much consternated hand-wringing is devoted to the seeming disconnect between college education and career paths. The mantra that college pr...

I have believed for several years now that I should not be teaching writing in my classes, because it's not my job. I teach philosophy, ...

The usual approach to contingent faculty * activism is to drive for inclusion, recognition, and security within our institutions. Contingen...

The "War on Terror" doesn't seem to have gone so well, after all. Whodathunkit? No doubt, it's the wrong target. No, I d...

This is the text of something I posted for my students to read. It's related to class discussions in my Philosophy and Education class (...