An organic crisis collided with a conjunctural crisis, and only the political right had both the sense and the power to take advantage of it. Now the conspiracist structure of feeling the recognition of one’s own relative disfranchisement, combined with a resentment toward the tremendous power and resources that a small class wields exclusively over everyone else textures our political reality thoroughly, and not just for the right’s ideological foot soldiers.
Assaults on Public Education: Bill Resnick talks to Jennifer Berkshire, a teacher of journalism with an emphasis on education, schools and the right’s continuing attack on public education, to replace it with private voucher schools teaching the right’s ideas on patriotism, sexual morality, and the obligations of citizenship. They discuss first the attack and the terrible
This letter is in reference to the impasse over the state budget in the Legislature, due mainly to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s reversal on his support for school vouchers, which Republican