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Published in: openDemocracyUKBook: Liberalism in neoliberal timesA new book, based on the openDemocracy series of the same name, is now available.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBudget 2015: A growing student movement has found its new hookAfter the trebling of tuition fees in 2010, student movements suffered a major blow. Now they are rising up again.
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Published in: HomeA guided tour through our series on 'liberalism in neoliberal times'We started the series with the proposition that liberalism is far too important to be left to the ‘liberals'. 38...
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Published in: HomeA dialogue between Enlightenment liberals and neoliberal elites on the idea of the universityBased upon a real story...
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Published in: HomeThe strange death of the liberal universityThose working in higher education now face a choice - capitulate to the de facto privatisation of universities, or fight it.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSocial Science IncThe neoliberal approach to higher education is turning social science academics into brand managers and commercial...
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Published in: HomePrevent Education?Some issues pass through many organs of the body politic like a barium meal, rendering visible flaws and faults that...
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Published in: HomeLatin American media and the shortcomings of liberalismLiberal theory is ill-equipped to deal with existing and historic inequalities; the market alone would never be...
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Published in: HomeIn privileged white man land, freedom of speech is always under attack
Despite what Spiked may claim, protecting our campuses from fascists, aggressive pro-life campaigners and sexism is...
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Published in: HomeCharlie Hebdo tragedy: free speech and its broader contexts
This was a specific attack designed to sow division. We musn't let it.
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Published in: HomeA second response to Meredith Tax - straw men make poor argument
Tax's misleading interpretation of my arguments do little to counter the central realities - that liberals and...
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Published in: HomeImperialist feminism: a response to Meredith Tax
A new generation of thinkers and activists are actively seeking a larger framework than the one liberals such as Tax...
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Published in: HomeThe role of 'best examples' in human rights
It is not only ideology that shapes human rights discourse but also reference points, 'best examples', cases that at...
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Published in: HomeDoes capitalism need mass higher education?
The neoliberal paradigm is economically dead but ideologically still very active especially in the education sector,...
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Published in: HomeWho exactly is the "we" that liberalism talks about?
Though always a construct by necessity, the gap between the idea and the reality of "we" is getting ever larger.
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Published in: HomeImperialist feminism and liberalismColonial feminism is based on the appropriation of women’s rights in the service of empire and has been widely...
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Published in: HomeThere’s no such thing as a liberal anti-racist
The liberal demand to depoliticise culture, to abandon “dangerous ideas”, is highly political and leads liberals to...
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Published in: HomeZionism and liberalism: complementary or contradictory?
The longish episode of left-wing, racist and militarist étatisme, has been replaced by a no less militaristic,...
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Published in: HomeThe liberal arts in neoliberal times
In the neoliberal epoch the humanities have undergone a radical transformation.
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Published in: HomeLiberalism is no friend of gender equality
Historically, liberal thought was not aligned with female emancipation or gender equality. The idea that women were...
