Academic Talk is an AWOL blog feature that steps out of the newsroom and into the classroom -- highlighting theory's relevance and manifestation in the country's conversations.
In the latest New Left Review, London-based academic journal, Erik Olin Wright expands the scope of his Marxist critique -- which has been an important citation for over three decades -- and details why his analysis has particular importance in the present American idiom.
Wright's work has principally exercised in the classical Marxist tradition, distilling class issues with mind to structured mechanisms of exploitation and domination.
In the past week, two news stories arose that, despite their comedic value, served only to shave still more dignity from this country's dignity-deficient conservative voice; The Obama Muslim-smearing that reared its ugly head before the election is still a right-wing trope -- along with the right's familiar tabloid circus fare.
First, in an interview with Oregon-based, nationally-syndicated conservative radio host Rusty Humphries, Sarah Palin stated that if she makes a run at the presidency in 2012, President Obama's birth certificate would once again become an issue.
"I think it's a fair question, just like I think past association and past voting records -- all of that is fair game," Palin said.
The typical AU student lives an economically-secure life on a tidy campus of material comforts. But for the 106 campus custodial employees who do the tidying, the prospect of a secure and comfortable future remains indefinite.
The "obelus." That short horizontal line and the two dots it separates introduced division to us as just another mathematical function early in our childhood.
As a first generation college student from a working-class family in Northeastern Pennsylvania, attending a private university has given me a sense of Otherness.
One Saturday night, I stand on the border. The great divide between two highly similar and notionally divided ways of life: that of North side and that of South side.
“Your visit to American University is like a premiere!" reads a new section of AU's Web site, which lauds the birth of the “Green Room" in the Katzen Arts Building.
In the latest New Left Review, London-based academic journal, Erik Olin Wright 
In the past week, two news stories arose that, despite their comedic value, served only to shave still more dignity from this country's dignity-deficient conservative voice; The 
