Her government adam ward were shot dead on live tv in roanoke, virginia, the 246th mass shooting in the u. S. There have been 50 more over the past six weeks. The largest one in oregon, a gunman killed nine last thursday then himself. The gunman cited the roanoke shooter in his online post. Andy parker joins us today to talk about his fight to end the countrys gun epidemic. Into a battle over Academic Freedom. Academic freedom is often negligible when it comes to sexual critique of structural critique of militarism or state power. Amy we will speak with Steven Salaita whose job offer at the university of illinois urbanachampaign was withdrawn last year after he tweeted harshly critical of the 2014 israeli assault on gaza. He is out with a new book, uncivil rights palestine and the limits of Academic Freedom. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Commander in afghanistan has altered the u. S. Acc
Person. I put up here the cover of one of Theodore Dreisers novels, sister carrie, and what we have been considering is a kind of fictional assault, right . On the victorian moral order. In Theodore Dreisers case, in naturalistic fiction. Naturalist writing. The attempt to get close to urban reality and recorded in the form record it in the form of a email adventurer female adventurer. He set his story, as you know, in the booming, bustling town of chicago. And to use chicago as a kind of character in this story, to look at the booms, the busts, the travails of the characters in his novel. Just to summarize where we got last time, we saw the workings of many things. Not just a story, but a kind of commentary on early 20thcentury Century America and especially urban industrial america. We saw the workings of a new economy. The novel itself as a kind of allegory for capitalism and especially consumer culture that was constantly on the move, in which styles, fashions, identities, characte
Money. The new cold war, russian president Vladimir Putin lashed out at u. S. Foreign policy, defending his countrys action he in ukraine and crimea. That speech l followed the announcement that russia is scrapping a pipeline project, instead russia will boost gas supplies to turkey, using current pipelines. Now, its asafe to say that russias relations with the west are at their lowest point in year s because of the action he in ukraine. Many of the issues that played out there are the same as what were seeing today. Go back to 2003 thats when georgians electricked mikhail sakasvi rvetio svili as president. In 2006. The south esetians went one step further, two years later , w. Bush started lobbying his nato allies, that angered moscow. So when sakashvili unleashed his are, r , russian jets bombed the main city, they only stopped when french mediation ended the conflict. In about 5 days of fighting, 130,000 were displaced from their homes. Sure, the United States and nato denounced rus
Pieces. So it works both ways. Lets move on to Christine Fredericks. I want to make sure we talk about the new housekeeping. Ks. Christine frederick herself was it on not the first to hit on this idea of a household engineer. The whole professioncime economics is becoming more expert driven in this period. T thish is in the early 20th 0th ce century Home Economics class. Home economics will be7v . Z taught in schools as a subject. Did any of you take home ec . It the roodsts are in this period. Int its an area that was thought to be just something individual private household things passed ers to on from mothers to daughters. Think of the beacher sisters who were part of this in a way, too. Right . Talking about household management. But Home Economicshome as a field, of a professional domain, where there are experts, creating curricula, is a turn of the century kind of profession. Here again is that is not ristin christine efrederick, but who l somebody who looks a little bit like Chr
Lonization of an area thought to be something individual private households do that were passed on in a rule of thumb way from mothers to daughters. Think of the beacher sisters who were part of this in a way, too, talking about household management. Home economics as a field of profession a professional domain where there are experts creating curriculum is a turn of the century kind of invention. Here again is that is not Christine Frederick but that is someone who looks like Christine Frederick. The start in the late 19th century but take on an expertdriven advice. The new housekeeping efficiency study in home management. Household engineer and professional consultant. One question we might pose here, i think its clear how much frederick is indebted to spun like taylor. Right . But how much has changed in the envisioning of the household from the time of the beacher sisters in the 1860s to this moment . Whats changed and whats remained the same . Nothing is every totally a break with