It’s the morning after 700 marchers from Occupy Wall Street were arrested as they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge.  It’s a beautiful fall day in New York.  The Liberty Plaza occupiers remain securely in place—with a substantial, but not overwhelming, police presence on their margins.  The couple of hundred occupiers are engaged in a variety […]

Introduction  At the moment, there are bitter struggles going on over continuing school failures, testing policies, budget cuts to schools and colleges, layoffs, school closings, class sizes, and the establishment of charter schools.  There is also an increasingly sharp debate emerging between proponents of what I will refer to as the “new education reform” and […]

Introduction While the oil “spill” at the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico (fifty miles off the Louisiana coast) that began with an explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon on April 20th has received a great deal of attention in the regular news media (some of it, by the way, quite serious and […]