Academic Repression in the First Person: Lies, Damn Lies, and David Horowitz

Academic Repression in ...

Grover Furr The specific context of this essay is my inclusion in David Horowitz’s book The Professors as one of the “101 most dangerous academics in America.” The section on me is hugely dishonest. Researched and written by one Rocco DiPippo, it was first published in...

Writing to the Test: A ...

Everything in the small cubicle looked grey and beat-up: the threadbare partitions that enclosed me, the filing cabinet at my feet, the computer keyboard with its grime-smeared plastic cover. The flat glare of fluorescent bulbs from behind mesh ceiling screens washed out any other...

Fixing the Academic Lab...

For much of American history, the American labor movement has been like an exclusive club, barring everyone from membership but the white, male, native-born, skilled worker. The largest labor organization of the early twentieth century was the American Federation of Labor (AFL), an...
A GC Refugee Finds Respect–in Canada

A GC Refugee Finds Resp...

Professor Kincheloe moderating adiscussion on Urban Education atthe Graduate Center last year. When Joe Kincheloe was in high school in rural Tennessee considering his future options, his guidance counselor suggested he become a piano tuner. A few decades–and, with wife Shirley...
Bush’s Private Armies, Seen from Within

Bush’s Private Ar...

Book Review: Licensed to Kill by Robert Young PeltonNew York: Crown Books, 2006. 368 pp. Robert Young Pelton on assignment. Despite its initial efforts to behave responsibly following the attacks of September 11th, America has turned the War on Terror into a Wild West story for the 21st...