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“Teaching Students to Think for Themselves” Starts with Political Self-Awareness
My nomination for the most predictable platitude invoked by university professors when describing the essence of their job is “teaching students to think for themselves.” During my 26 years at the University of Texas at Austin, where I was sometimes accused of politicizing the classroom, I repeated that phrase many times, not as a dodge […]
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Understanding Western Praxis
A recent book offers valuable lessons on Western crimes and their global impacts. We are living in a period of intense global transformation. The transition to a multipolar world has brought historical and contemporary tensions to the surface, revealing patterns of intervention and manipulation that have shaped entire regions. Understanding how the West has historically […]
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Your Mind is a Battlefield: Decolonize Your Mind to Prevent Global Catastrophe!
Talk delivered for the event “Changes Not Seen in a Century: 75th Anniversary of the Founding of PRC.” Friends, Colleagues, Comrades, It’s a great honor for me to join you in this extraordinary, historical moment of celebration and reflection on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. As has been said, we are seeing […]
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Three Reasons Why Public High Schools Don’t Teach Critical Thinking
The following warning should be affixed atop every computer in America’s schools: Proceed at your own risk. Don’t accept as true what you’re about to read. Some of it is fact; some of it is opinion masquerading as fact; and the rest is liberal, conservative, or mainstream propaganda. Make sure you know which is which […]
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