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Death by Degrees
N+1 No. 14 Death by Degrees by the Editors [T]he AMA owes its authority to America’s most notorious robber barons, who invented philanthropy as we know it by establishing foundations capable of...
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A reading guide for students of Marxism
A Marxist education In early February I received this email from a Marxmail subscriber: If I am not imposing on you —could you recommend some items to read to get some concise (assuming that is the...
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Nunavut
I am working on a piece for Counterpunch on Robert Flaherty’s “Nanook of the North” that was made in 1921 and generally considered the first documentary ever. I saw it for the first time at the...
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How a Bard trustee and billionaire agribusinessman corrupts higher education
Stewart Resnick The deep-going drought in California presents a fundamental challenge to the ecological status quo in which agribusiness trumps the needs of ordinary people relying on water for their...
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Why NYU does the things it does
Yesterday’s NY Times carried a blockbuster report on the mistreatment of the predominantly East Asian construction laborers hired as virtual indentured servants to build the New York University...
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Is America committing slow-motion suicide? A look at the decline of CUNY
Since my wife is a faculty member at Lehman College, the picture of its library in yesterday’s NY Times captured my attention: Lehman and other City University of New York colleges were profiled in an...
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CUNY Struggle
In the two decades I spent working as a programmer at Columbia University, I used to read the Chronicle of Higher Education to keep up with trends in information technology but also consulted this...
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Harvard University, bias against Asian-Americans, affirmative action and...
Edward Blum, using Asian-American student grievances to destroy affirmative action Towards the end of the very fine documentary “The Chinese Exclusion Act” that I reviewed for CounterPunch on Friday,...
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Eric Blanc, the LA School Strike, and Swimming Against the Stream
Unlike other teachers strikes over the past year, the one that just took place in Los Angeles confronted a Democratic Party machine rather than one run by the Republicans. For those trying to...
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