The Agony of Flint
Poisoned Water, Racism and the Specter of Neoliberal Fascism “Flint still doesn’t have clean water.”[1] Michelle Wolf, White House Correspondents Dinner, April 28, 2018 “Neoliberal fascism, as a form of extreme capitalism, views democracy as the enemy.”[2] Henry Giroux, June 2018 Certanya Johnson sat crying before the Al Jazeera reporter in May 2018. The Flint […]
Why Doesn’t Diversity Training Work?
The Challenge for Industry and Academia Uncommon Sense Starbucks’ decision to put 175,000 workers through diversity training on May 29, in the wake of the widely publicized arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia store, put diversity training back in the news. But corporations and universities have been doing diversity training for decades. Nearly […]
That Most Dangerous, Sacred American Space, the Bathroom
uncommon sense Spoiler alert: In Hitchcock’s masterpiece Psycho, Janet Leigh was not savagely murdered in the living room, but we’ll get to that. Culture wars can erupt anywhere, including in the bathroom. These spaces are personal. They really can be dangerous, nerve-wracking and threatening, but not for the reasons we hear on the media. Today’s […]