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Five myths about liberal academia - 0 views

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Five myths about liberal academia

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  • thinkahol * on 28 Feb 11
     
    Do red-blooded, hard-working Americans pay thousands of dollars each year to send their children to college, only to have those kids turned into pot-smoking Obamacare-lovers by a pack of communist hippies? This stereotype -- professors as brainwashing left-wing ideologues -- has dogged academia at least since the Vietnam War era. But our nation's vilified professoriate isn't composed of just Marxists and Whole Foods shoppers. Let's upend five popular misconceptions about the people educating the next generation.
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Hedges Laments The 'Death Of The Liberal Class' : NPR - 0 views

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Hedges Laments The 'Death Of Liberal Class' : NPR

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  • thinkahol * on 09 Nov 10
     
    Liberals have conceded the good fights -- organizing workers, preventing war, a greener economy -- to corporations and the ruling powers for decades, argues Chris Hedges. In his book, Death of the Liberal Class, Hedges slams groups and institutions from academia, to the church, to the Democratic par
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The demophobes and the great fear of populism | openDemocracy - 5 views

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  • What do these political forces have in common? In truth, very little. Some are ideologically and politically poles apart. If these parties are politically different, why indiscriminately refer to them as ‘populist’?
  • Over the past fifteen years or so, the word’s meaning has changed quite considerably. Nowadays, it rarely defines authoritarian regimes which appeal to the masses, but rather designates left-wing or right-wing movements which are seen as challenging the dominant ideas or policies.
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      Arabica Robusta on 27 Jun 13
       
      Questionable history.  Latin American "populism" typically referred to regimes that tried to be independent of the United States.
  • Politica Bar on 23 Jan 14
     
    Wikimedia Commons/thesupermat. Some rights reserved. So we are all 'populist' now? Many in the media and in academia seem to think so. In Europe, various political movements and politicians are described as 'populist'.
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