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Tag: Social issues

  • Punishing Language: Queensland’s Antisemitism Bill

    In a feat of enterprising delusion and sinister suppression, Australia’s second largest state has decided to deal with what it regards as an antisemitic problem. After last December’s attacks on Sydney’s Bondi Beach by two gunmen on attendees of a Hanukkah event that left 15 people dead, it has become modish to insist that a […]

  • Not Forgetting the Victims: Club Epstein and Crimes Against Humanity

    Not Forgetting the Victims: Club Epstein and Crimes Against Humanity

    With a sex trafficking, flesh peddling empire of favours, logistics and the good time to be had by the powerful, the gigantic scale of Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal network continues to disturb. The least savoury digital library on the planet, available through the offices of the US Justice Department as the Epstein Library, is being combed […]

  • Fearing Immigration: The Australian Coalition and the Return of Bad Habits

    Killing political leaders – metaphorically and actually – often ushers in a silly season where the Mad Hatter presides over an imbecilic party. Amidst coups, defections, dethronements and confusions on the right of Australia politics, we see ugly topics return to the fore with ghastly predictability. The Liberals, the Nationals, and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation […]

  • Poor Financial And Operational Performance Are Not Unique To Chicago Charter Schools

    Charter schools are outsourced schools, also known as contract schools. They are privately operated, deregulated, and laser-focused on siphoning substantial sums of public money, services, and facilities from public schools. Charter schools are essentially pay-the-rich schemes masquerading as great inventions designed to close the century-old “achievement gap.” There is nothing grass-roots about them. Recognizing that […]

  • A New Era of Political Mobilization Is Dawning

    Born in South Africa just a few years after the end of World War II and reared by activists in the anti-apartheid movement, I witnessed my parents’ struggle against fascism and its accompanying racism in both my country of birth and Europe. This created in me a sense of the fragility of democracy and fear […]

  • Our blindness to whiteness

    During the COVID pandemic, I published a book titled The White-West: A Look in the Mirror. At the time, I did not imagine that only a few years later the dynamics I described would become so stark, so violent, and so openly visible. Today, many struggle to understand what is happening in the United States—and […]

  • Why Not Another Half Trillion Dollars for War?

    Why Not Another Half Trillion Dollars for War?

    Normally, when one develops all the symptoms of a disease, the response ought not to be exacerbating the disease, but seeking to cure it. Approaches to healthcare in the United States have gone off the rails, of course, but think about the disease of military spending. What are some of the symptoms we’ve suffered recently? […]

  • When Charter School Authorities And Liberal Institutions Abandon People

    When Charter School Authorities And Liberal Institutions Abandon People

    Sadly, the tragic journey of Buffalo’s first charter school, the King Center Charter School (KCCS), is not an isolated one. Nationwide, far too many charter schools—old and new—experience death by a thousand cuts, usually at the hands of their private operators, charter school authorizers, and the institutions that are supposed to protect them. Buffalo’s King […]

  • Florida’s Charter Schools Lower State’s 2024-25 Graduation Rate

    Florida’s Charter Schools Lower State’s 2024-25 Graduation Rate

    While corruption is endemic to the decades-old charter school sector, it is extra rampant in Florida’s charter schools. To add insult to injury, Florida also has the nation’s second highest charter school failure and closure rate. No amount of “school choice” rhetoric in Florida has improved this record. School privatization is notorious for lowering the […]

  • In the Wake of the Epstein Files Release, Remember that Abuse Is Everywhere

    When I first came to Japan in 1989, a few Japanese actually told me that there was no child abuse in Japan. That shows that there was little consciousness of this social problem in those days. But I would guess that most people in the U.S. and Japan, of my generation at least, have been […]

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