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Daily Mail: Anarchy on the streets [as] Protesters vow to smash
Daily Mail: Anarchy on the streets [as] Protesters vow to smash the G20 But a look back at documentary footage of what happened in Toronto at the G20...

Nice summing up of Heideggers complicity, and a warning to those
Nice summing up of Heideggers complicity, and a warning to those of us who also have a love of the soil: Heidegger held that the superiority of his E...

In the midst of the debate about free speech (sparked by the UC
In the midst of the debate about free speech (sparked by the UC Berkeley chancellors call for civility when exercising that freedom) it is interesting...

David Crystals advice to teachers concerned about injustice: Get
David Crystals advice to teachers concerned about injustice: Get in touch with one of the big teaching organisations, such as IATEFL, where these issu...

C. Wright Mills at the climax of an excellent essay on "the
C. Wright Mills at the climax of an excellent essay on "the overdeveloped society" where he gets onto the topic of the retreat of the Western intellec...

"That the social networks were formidable instruments of social
"That the social networks were formidable instruments of social control was already clear: whatever you do on the Internet, whatever message or e-mail...

People who assume an antithesis between progressive pedagogy (Free
People who assume an antithesis between progressive pedagogy (Free the child) and conservative pedagogy (Teach the Truth) and assume that either one m...

"Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic
"Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and unstrong. Consciousness gives rise to coun...

"When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the
"When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter or a similar Silicon...