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Is It Time to Bury Neoliberalism?: Maybe, Maybe Not
Neoliberalism is an incredibly complex system of political economy and there are many more questions to answer. Still, as the contributors all brought up this month, historians have an important role in deconstructing an abusive market system.
Call for Contributors for May 2018 Issue, “Corruption”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our May 2018 issue, “Corruption.”
The Neoliberal Democrats
As one of the two viable political parties in a system designed to allow only a duopoly, the Democratic Party’s embrace of neoliberalism has been devastating long term. No longer the party of the working class, Democrats have embraced privatization, and taken steps to severely limit the rights of workers.
The West Virginia Teachers’ Strike and the Power of Grassroots Change
When this goes down in history, we don’t want the story to be that teachers went on a nine-day strike. We want the story to be that this was the beginning of a snowball effect of wonderful things happening for West Virginia. I think that in order for that to happen, we have to “Remember in November.”
Academe’s Bad Behavior
The university stands at a crossroad, and a decision is needed as to which direction it will go, whether it will cast off its foolish consistency in preserving the hegemonic forces that have arrested the development of the mind or renew itself as the last place to question and possibly upset the status quo.
Neoliberalism, the Public Intellectual, and the Decline of History
Modern scholars who want their work to reach audiences beyond their students and colleagues may find role models in the history of their own discipline.
Did Sasse Go to Class? Review of Historian and US Senator Ben Sasse’s The Vanishing American Adult
Despite claiming a national scope for this problem, Senator Sasse’s The Vanishing American Adult mainly applies to upper class white Christians, thereby exposing an arrogant idealism that is closer to neoliberal fantasy than reality.
Disrupting Technological Capitalism
As progressives who believe in the power of unions and the necessity of unity against an exploitative capitalist class who treats workers as commodities, this situation forces us to ask an important question: what will the future of work look like?
The Design of the Everyday Diversity Industrial Complex
We must cast a critical eye toward the diversity conversation within the tech industry as it impacts who’s employed in that industry, the types of products they produce, who writes about those products, who those products are made for, and who benefits from those products.
From Steamship to Phonograph: Frederick Douglass, David Blight, and the Politics of Memory
We may not have to listen to Frederick Douglass, but isn’t it extraordinary that we can choose to do so?
