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Philadelphia and the Darkside of Liberty
This planned investigation, titled Philadelphia and The Darkside of Liberty, is a deliberate examination into the cultural, economic, and sociopolitical foundations which undergirded America’s early colony and its newly birthed land of liberty’s class-stratified slave society – combined with a closer look at the contradictions which laid within the notions and/or paradoxes of early American equality, […]
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“What Did You Learn in School Today?”
circa 1830: A slave auction in America. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images) Through the centuries, the Republic that eventuated in North America has maintained a maximum of chutzpah and minimum of awareness in forging a creation myth that sees slavery and dispossession not as foundational but as inimical to the nation now known as the United […]
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Timely Lessons About Tyranny from the Father of the Constitution
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. — James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, 1785 James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become mere “parchment barrier,” words on paper ignored by successive generations of […]
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DeSantis as Gradgrind
Florida’s Governor DeSantis educational scheme that students need to learn the facts and nothing but the facts is likely to make teaching and learning in Florida more challenging than ever before. DeSantis’ “fact only” pedagogy mirrors that of Thomas Gradgrind, a character in Dickens’ Hard Times who sustained the Victorian status quo by teaching students […]
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