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+ al green, america, american history, american literature, donald trump, JD Vance, mike johnson, politics

“This is an us problem!”: We Must Recognize Ourselves to Move Forward

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Last week, during Donald Trump’s Joint Address to Congress, I noticed, for the first time, the fasces on each side of the podium. The fasces is an ancient symbol dating back to he Etruscans and Rome. Fasces consists of a bound bundle of rods and an axe. You can find fasces, just like swastikas, in various places. When walking around Washington D.C., you can … Read More “This is an us problem!”: We Must Recognize Ourselves to Move Forward

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+ donald trump, election, higher education, JD Vance, politics, project 2025

What Does Project 2025 Say About Higher Education?: Part II

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As I began discussing in my previous post, Project 2025 will have a damaging impact on individuals’ access to higher education. This has been a long standing goal of conservatives, as Fabiola Cineas points out at Vox. The goal is to limit access to universities and to return them, in many ways, to places that will, as Lauren Lassabe Shepherd mentions when speaking with Cineas and describing … Read More What Does Project 2025 Say About Higher Education?: Part II

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+ chronicle of higher education, donald trump, higher education, higher education in America, JD Vance, project 2025, university

What Does Project 2025 Say About Higher Education?: Part I

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As he worked, over the past few weeks, to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Donald Trump announced that Senator J.D. Vance would be his running mate for the 2024 presidential election. Likewise, since his nomination, Vance has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, even though a month ago he posted about writing the foreword for the President of the Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts’ new … Read More What Does Project 2025 Say About Higher Education?: Part I

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+ donald trump, lillian e smith, US Capitol, Washington D.C., white supremacy

The New Lost Cause Rhetoric

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Cover photo Mike Theiler Lillian Smith tells the story of her and one of her brothers playing in their house in Jasper, Florida. They ran around and in the attic they came across an old chest. Opening it, they stood aghast, staring at all of the money they had found. “We felt rich; richer than the Rockefeller children or any children,” Smith said in … Read More The New Lost Cause Rhetoric

+ critical literacy, critical thinking, donald trump, horror noire, rage against the machine, the binge, tom morello

The Need for Critical Thinking and Literacy: Part I

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As I, like millions and millions of others, waited for the election results to trickle in last week, I came across this video of Trump supporters dancing to a song in Philadelphia as they protested for officials to stop counting votes. The video shows a woman in a MAGA hat, a flag shirt, silver pants, and a blue lives matter flag worn as a … Read More The Need for Critical Thinking and Literacy: Part I

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