Are We Different? Graduate Student Funding and Debt in USIH [10]
Yesterday at Slate, Rebecca Schuman reported on a project, begun by Karen Kelsky, to bring graduate student debt out of the shadows. What I like about this story and the project is it also is...
View ArticleThe Common Ruin of the Contending Classes: On David Huyssen’s Progressive...
It is often forgotten that, almost at the very beginning of the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels envision two possible outcomes of any given class struggle, contrary to the charge of teleology that...
View ArticleAtypical Town, Typical Inequality: the insider perspective of an outsider. [6]
I grew up in a weird place. A small, rural town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Georgetown (that’s right, not the one in D.C. – there’s a Georgetown in California) always struck me as the sort of town...
View ArticleThe Demos, Polis, and Meritocratic Technocracy: Anti-Elitism in Recent U.S....
Richard Hofstadter asserted, in his 1963 classic Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, that anti-intellectualism is about resentment and hostility toward “the life of the mind and of those who are...
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