
Tag: neoliberalism

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

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- LGM Film Club, Part 137: Anatomy of a Lie
- Music Notes
- How Eeyorism and contrarianism undermined public health messaging on COVID
- No performance, all art
- Member of the “douche crew” was also a total dick in college
- Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal
- Did Ted’s Excellent Cancun Adventure make him vulnerable to a primary challenge?
- Does the US-Saudi relationship require giving someone who ordered the cold-blooded murder of a permanent American resident a pass?
- IRCA II