Democracy – the rule of the people at the heart of the American political ideal — and plutocracy, the rule of the wealthy and the tumor at the heart of America’s political reality: both are looked on as very problematic thingsĀ in wisdom traditions both Eastern and Western. A few snapshots will serve: Jesus’ Needle: [...]
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Cassandra, Mammon, and the Death of Critical Thinking
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Hear, hear: University students worried about getting a job see the study of the humanities as a waste of precious time. . . . Times are hard for humanists. But when economic growth becomes the focus of education, both democracy and human decency are in jeopardy. In her new book, Not For Profit: Why Democracy [...]
What Crisis? Edublogging as Rome Burns
Saturday, 11 October 2008
On Blogging in the Late Weimar Republic Reading the headlines of Alltop.com’s “top education” sites‘ brings to mind the cover of the old Supertramp album, showing a man sunning himself in a bathing suit on a lounge chair, surrounded by grimy industrial waste. The album’s title? “Crisis? What Crisis?” Economically, American banking deregulation has dragged [...]






