Contributions by:
Peter N. Kirstein
Had President Dwight D. Eisenhower not initially used it, I would have recommended the title Mandate for Change. Instead, Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors (A.A.U.P.) and Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has a Kingian title for his recent volume on academic freedom…
Read Full Article...Book Reviewed: Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, The Untold History of the United States (Gallery, 2012). “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner was correct. For too long history’s outcasts and victims’ were stripped of their pasts and denied a voice for the future. The task of the historian is…
Read Full Article...Higher education is in a state of crisis. The mania affecting the academy is profit, slashing the price of labour, increasing class size, destroying the tenure system with full-time non-tenure track and adjunct-proletarian labour, and increasing the power and size of the administration-ruling class. Student tuition always increases even during prolonged economic stagnation. Student debt…
Read Full Article...Books reviewed: Martin Duberman, Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left (New York: The New Press, 2012) Anthony Arnove, Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009 ed. (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012) The American Association of University Professors was founded 100 years ago in 1915 to defend academic freedom for professors who were initially under siege…
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