What COVID is doing with education, both K-12 and higher ed, is bringing neoliberalism’s chickens home to roost. Decades of decreasing state investment, the encouragement of private fundraising
Thomas Friedman is pretty bloody irrelevant in 2020. No one really talks about him anymore. His columns are largely ignored by the public, even though he has far stronger tenure than any professor cou
I am dismayed to see many commenters now dismissing the entire use of the term “neoliberal” as meaningless jargon. This is horrible. Neoliberalism is a very real thing that has transformed
I am currently reading Finis Dunaway’s excellent 2015 book Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images. Examining many of the most iconic environmental images of the last ha
Betsy DeVos is a devotee of Milton Friedman and will be bringing his ideas about education into the Department of Education. Milton Friedman, patron saint of the free market, died in 2006, but his ide
A significant internal problem for the left is that the term “neoliberalism” is used as an epithet that now means “anything Democrats do that I don’t like.” This is a ter
