Neoliberalism’s War against Higher Education and the Role of Public Intellectuals

Across the globe, a new historical conjuncture is emerging in which the attacks on higher education as a democratic institution and on dissident public voices in general – whether journalists, whistleblowers, or academics – are intensifying with sobering consequences. The attempts to punish prominent academics such as Ward Churchill, Steven Salaita, and others are matched by an equally vicious assault on whistleblowers such as Chelsea Manning, …