Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students-whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless,…
A former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Kim R. Holmes surveys the state of liberalism in America today and finds that it is becoming its opposite-illiberalism-abandoning the precepts of open-mindedness and respe…
Holmes surveys the state of liberalism in America today and finds that it is becoming its opposite-- illiberalism-- becoming an intolerant, rigidly dogmatic ideology that abhors dissent and stifles free speech. He argues that today’s liberalism has forsaken its American roots, i…
This dissertation places the works of Étienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) in dialogue with those of Jean Bodin (1530-1601) in order to better understand how competing notions of human nature, freedom, and conceptual (not to mention, literal) boundaries of civic belonging and politi…
Catholic regimes in post-Tridentine Italy were expected to enforce religious orthodoxy domestically while supporting ideological and military Crusade abroad. However, the demands of spiritual stewardship often conflicted with the mercantilist interests of the state. Combining me…
Today, the concepts "toleration" and "pluralism" are generally taken to be synonymous. Yet Baruch Spinoza's rationalist political philosophy outlined a conception of positive liberty, as well as a robust doctrine of toleration, which grew out of a monistic metaphysics instead. E…
The first two decades of Husni Mubarak's presidency witnessed increased sectarian conflict between Egypt's Muslim and Christian communities, a by-product of rising religious identification in Egypt during the 1980's and 19901s. Even in a context of sectarian conflict, however, i…
This dissertation explores the development of political Islam in recent years. Specifically, it tries to explain why in some Muslim countries the state repression of the moderate political Islamist movements was followed by pervasive Islamist violence, whereas in others peaceful…
"A searing critique of state violence and intolerance in the United States today, Henry Giroux examines how hot-button issues and events reveal the nation's drift toward totalitarian forms of social control. From police violence in black communities to meteoric rise of Donald Tr…
by Giroux, Henry A., Kelley, Robin D. G.
fromOpen Media book
"From hatemongering tactics in the run-up to the 2016 presidential race, to the increasing number of mass shootings, to excessive police violence, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to u…
"From hatemongering tactics in the run-up to the 2016 presidential race, to the increasing number of mass shootings, to excessive police violence, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to u…
"A searing critique of state violence and intolerance in the United States today, Henry Giroux examines how hot-button issues and events reveal the nation's drift toward totalitarian forms of social control. From police violence in black communities to meteoric rise of Donald Tr…
"From hatemongering tactics in the run-up to the 2016 presidential race, to the increasing number of mass shootings, to excessive police violence, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to u…
"From hatemongering tactics in the run-up to the 2016 presidential race, to the increasing number of mass shootings, to excessive police violence, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to u…
