Author: Rachel Jurado

By Mar 21,2009

Take zat!

You’ve gotta love people who protest by reading a book (or at least buying a book or saying that they’ve read it). From the Telegraph: Mr Sarkozy, a man often...

By Nov 24,2008

YouPanopticon

As the token humanities grad student here, I feel it’s my duty to post the link to a video of this conversation between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky… then again,...

By Nov 13,2008

L’il Tocqueville

John Kass at the Chicago Tribune writes about a middle schooler in Oak Park, IL who conducted an experiment in political tolerance: She noticed that fellow students at Gwendolyn Brooks...

By Sep 03,2008

Neither/Nor

Stanley Fish takes on the cant of “academic freedom” in a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education: Is academic freedom a philosophical concept tied to larger concepts of...