The 2008 election was historic on many counts, but one of the more significant developments was the decisive defeat of the politics of smear and fear. As the campaign wore on, and the prospects of the McCain-Palin candidacy appeared increasingly …
Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown v. Board of Education, by Danielle S. Allen
The reality of Venezuela under the rule of Hugo Chávez Frias, Gregory Wilpert tells us, is a “complicated truth” (“Venezuela’s Other Path,” Spring 2005). Whereas many observers see in Chávez another Fidel Castro, an authoritarian caudillo pushing his nation toward …
The Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice in American Education
Genocide and the Expedient Political Lie
As the first anniversary of September 11 approached, a controversy over the meaning of that fateful day and the place it will occupy in our national self-understanding irrupted into public view. The debate emerged not as battling manifestos by prominent …
Viewed from inside “history in the making,” a place where Americans now dwell, September 11 appears as a day that marked a radical change in our world. When we finally went to sleep that night, it seemed that a familiar …
Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights by Robert P. Moses with Charles E. Cobb, Jr. Beacon Press, 2001, 192 pp., $21 Is math education today’s civil rights struggle? Are children in inner-city and poor rural schools the dispossessed sharecroppers …
