Sunday Reading
...a golden age of public higher education "[T]here are approximately twice as many men on campuses who have committed rape than previously reported" The $150 million question—what does federal regulation...
Called to Account
...themselves to the vagaries of financial markets by borrowing for education (investing in their “human capital”) and investing for retirement, while poorer people are expected to labor, deprive themselves of...
Sunday Reading
...(transcript of oral arguments) A brief history of black students' militant struggle at University of Michigan Sold out: On the privatization of public education in the UK We have something...
Factory Made
A history of modernity as a history of factories struggles to see beyond their walls
A Reformist in Hell
...basically conflates goodness with whiteness and money. His purgatory is “corrective” and includes vocational training, therapy and education, providing hope for a better life on the outside where the rehabilitated...
Solving Happiness
...exported CBT into education policy: Many schools now include positive psychology in their curriculum, including KIPP charter schools in the U.S. and several academies in the UK. One of the...
The Cult of the Chafing Dish
...in college social life." -- from the Proceedings of the Annual Session of the Iowa State Education Association (1907) As much of a splash as the salad in the third...
Seeing Red
...education. Dropping down a Wal-Mart selling dozens of heads of lettuce in a poor neighborhood will not solve those problems. It will exacerbate them. And so it happens that the...
The Myth of Liberal Policing
For liberals, police reform is always a question of helping police sustain their legitimacy, despite their illegitimate roots
Life on Autopilot
An interview with Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, a memoir about the tech-bro universe’s notions of progress
Sunday Reading
...field of education that there began to develop a new wind that would change the country." Special pleading: on the identity politics of "Blue Lives Matter" Kerim Friedman: "Civility" Fence?...
Grudge Lust
...a foolish, affected manner, she is always speaking of a “he.” Despite her wit and education, Shonagon did not write for a public audience and was not known as a...
Sunday Reading
...black voices on crime" Why did Soul City fail?[radio 33:59] Kerim Friedman: Palestinian Anthropologists Speak: Dina Omar Israeli Violations of Palestinian Academic Freedom & Access to Education Is an Academic...
Reader's Digest
...really be poor!’? These and other such austere lessons (arguably the real content of his education) instilled in Balzac an acute sensitivity to matters gustatorial. He understood that food did...
Sunday Reading
...crisis The education of a scholar who chose to become a black man The hidden costs of going Greek Berkeley students want nothing to do with racist Bill Maher Policing...
Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State
Growing food and getting free in a world built for agricultural capital