After the Future tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-223564 2013-05-19T09:47:50-07:00 "Without the ultrarational hopes and passions of religion no society will ever have the courage to conquer despair and attempt the impossible; for the vision of a just society is an impossible one, which can be approximated only by those who do not regard it as impossible."--Reinhold Niebuhr TypePad It's the Nineties Again tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520c4d69e20192aa177f4f970d 2013-05-19T09:47:50-07:00 2013-05-19T09:52:45-07:00 Obama's bad week is hardly worth commenting on except to point out that the only criticism of the administration that gets any traction in the corporate media is the criticism from the Right. The Ben Ghazi thing is all smoke,... Jack Whelan Quote of the Day: Michael Lind tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520c4d69e2017eeadee46b970d 2013-05-06T12:12:54-07:00 2013-05-06T12:13:46-07:00 In hindsight, the neoliberal cure was far worse than the New Deal liberal disease. The maturity of the New Deal's system of regulated managerial capitalism coincided with the post-World War II boom and the greatest expansion of the middle class... Jack Whelan Why the Coming Common Core State Standards Are a Technocratic Disaster in the Making tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520c4d69e2017d4314c469970c 2013-04-24T11:30:32-07:00 2013-04-24T11:30:32-07:00 Anthony Cody sums it up pretty well. The column is really about how the national teachers' unions, as usual, are on the wrong side of this: The Obama administration's education policies have been, by and large, a disaster. And Republicans... Jack Whelan Cultural Hegemony tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520c4d69e201901b7c59f5970b 2013-04-22T08:30:02-07:00 2013-04-22T08:46:41-07:00 There was a time way back when--in the seventies--when I made an attempt to grapple with the kind of neo-Marxist thought for which the Frankfurt School was typical. I didn't get far, because while parts of it interested me, particularly... Jack Whelan Quote of the Day: David Harvey tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834520c4d69e2017d42f8a326970c 2013-04-20T10:25:39-07:00 2013-04-20T11:07:12-07:00 But one persistent fact within this complex history of uneven neoliberalization has been the universal tendency to increase social inequality and to expose the least fortunate elements in any society--be it in Indonesia, Mexico, or Britain--to the chill winds of... Jack Whelan