“Seasoned sessional” and valued friend and former professor Allison Dube has written an article for the University of Calgary’s Gauntlet. In it, he condemns many of the changes that have reshaped academia in the last two decades, changes in privatization and commercialization, as well as an increasing emphasis on self-interest over public benefit, that have [...]
Lifting up mine eyes - finally 04.18.08
A re-teaching of U.S. imperial history by Howard Zinn 04.02.08
Empire or Humanity? at Mother Jones brings us the words of Howard Zinn in his essay, “What the classroom didn’t teach me about the American empire”. It is the week of publication for his new book A People’s History of American Empire, a new graphic novel treatment of his “People’s History” series.
I first [...]
Richard Florida’s Creative Social Compact 03.05.08
Richard Florida, responding to a conversation about enabling competition, outlines the beginnings of a “creative social compact.”
The rise of the globalized, idea-driven, creative economy requires a new social compact that goes far beyond the 20th century, industrial age one… [Denmark] has pioneered one of the world’s productive and socially-minded economies. There is little [...]
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