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Robert Cohen’s Freedom’s Orator and Edward P. Morgan’s What Really Happened to the 1960s

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Robert Cohen,“Freedom’s Orator”: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s (Oxford, 2009) Edward P. Morgan, What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 2010)   On 15 November 2011, at the same spot on the Berkeley campus where “freedom’s orator” emerged into history in…

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West Bank Settlements Obstruct Peace: Israel’s Empire State Building

from Logos 1.4 – Fall 2002 Why is it so hard to make peace in the Middle East? The greatest barrier is the Israeli settlements—these are both the motivation and engine of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Three decades of objections from the United States and Europe have achieved nothing. The rapid expansion of Israeli settlements—all illegal—has…

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Review: Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All Administrative University. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2013

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Benjamin Ginsberg’s The Fall of the Faculty provides a compelling and accurate diagnosis of the contemporary ills plaguing the rise of the all-administrative university. Ginsberg’s analysis strongly resonates with my own experience at several different institutions (public and private) over the last ten years, as I have personally witnessed how administrators have used their positions…

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