Jim Burns

Foucault in Education Opening Remarks

Some remarks that I delivered at JCT in October. I'll post my other papers in the coming days.
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Science For Sale: How Drugmakers Captured The FDA The pharmaceutical industry spent decades manipulating the country’s top drug regulator into rubber-stamping its products. The Trump administration is making matters worse.

The pharmaceutical industry spent decades manipulating the country’s top drug regulator into rubber-stamping its products. The Trump administration is making matters worse.
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Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.

Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party
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Storm Warnings | Mark Lilla The MAGA movement is not fed by conservative ideas but by a nihilistic, apocalyptic determination to stage a counterrevolution against the Sixties, against liberalism, against even democracy itself.

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Please check out this new title, Understanding Curriculum Epistemicide: Possibilities and Complicated Conversations, which was edited by Richard Sawyer, Wanying Wang, and Dan Ness. I have a chapter in it. The entire contributor list is really outstanding.
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ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.

ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants by @sambiddle.com
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AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities Immediately after October 7, a little know company shipped over 100 reconnaissance drones to Israel for use in its siege of Gaza. Having been battle-tested on Palestinian civilians, the UAVs are now b...

AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities
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Is Israel 'On the Brink?' (w/ Ilan Pappé) In spite of Israel’s military dominance over its regional foes, is the Zionist entity actually at its most vulnerable point in history? And more importantly — can it sustain the Jewish state project?

Is Israel 'On the Brink?' (w/ Ilan Pappé)
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The Rise of the Thielverse and the Construction of the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) | The Chris Hedges Report Whitney Webb traces the Thielverse’s rise and the bipartisan construction of the modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today.

The Rise of the Thielverse and the Construction of the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) | The Chris Hedges Report
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ICE Just Bought A Social Media Surveillance Bot Trump’s immigration enforcers just inked a multimillion-dollar deal for AI-driven social media surveillance software used by the Israeli military and the Pentagon.

Trump’s immigration enforcers just inked a multimillion-dollar deal for AI-driven social media surveillance software used by the Israeli military and the Pentagon.
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Corporate PACs Fund ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’ Rep. Randy Fine Comcast, CVS, Boeing, and other major corporations have made PAC donations to the Florida Republican despite his repeated calls for violence against Muslims and Palestinians.

Corporate PACs Fund ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’ Rep. Randy Fine readsludge.com/2025/10/23/c...

David Brooks Is the Last Person We Should Be Listening to Right Now A mass movement against the Trump administration is essential, but no one should take an Iraq War booster’s advice.

David Brooks Is the Last Person We Should Be Listening to Right Now
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UPDATE: Taxpayer bailout of Argentina may grow to $40 billion The bailout, which Trump admitted is of little benefit to Americans, keeps getting bigger.

UPDATE: Taxpayer bailout of Argentina may grow to $40 billion
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Theoretical Puppets: J is for Justice (Michel Foucault) (2025) Mar 25, 2025 Theoretical Puppets: J is for Justice (Michel Foucault)

Theoretical Puppets: J is for Justice (Michel Foucault) (2025) michel-foucault.com/2025/10/21/t...

Harvard Runs Deficit, Even as Endowment Grows Sharply Harvard University ended fiscal year 2025 with a $113 million operating deficit, according to its annual financial report—the first such loss in more than a decade, Harvard Magazine reported. That fol...

The revenue is down $113 million, but hey, the endowment is up by $3.7 billion - $56 endowment. Guess Harvard is like every other business - it’s basically a hedge fund and a real estate developer.
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ICE boosts weapons spending 700% A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.

ICE boosts weapons spending 700%
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The unhinged attacks on No Kings The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” On Sunday, October 18, millions of Ameri...

The unhinged attacks on No Kings
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Quid Pro Presidency Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits fro...

Quid Pro Presidency
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Boeing’s Arms Sales Thrive on Gaza Genocide With $26.7 billion in approved Israel arms sales since October 7, 2023, Boeing stands out as a top beneficiary of the Gaza war.

Boeing’s Arms Sales Thrive on Gaza Genocide readsludge.com/2025/10/13/b...

Americans Mystified Why Nonessential Federal Employee Still Has Job The still-employed man performs no identifiable function, Americans noted.

Americans Mystified Why Nonessential Federal Employee Still Has Job
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RIP David Berliner. A truly great scholar and a wonderful person.

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The NAR Vows to Stage the Largest-Ever Gathering of Christian Women Last year on Yom Kippur, leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation staged an all-day rally in support of Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency called A Million Women. As was the case with the Million M...

A self-proclaimed prophet? A little idolatry? Only a very specific type of "Christian" woman need gather.

The NAR Vows to Stage the Largest-Ever Gathering of Christian Women religiondispatches.org/the-nar-vows...

American Council of Learned Societies' Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

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Fascist gathering in the White House signals mass repression and violence The White House has been transformed into the headquarters of a conspiracy to legitimize fascism, brand anti-fascism as “terrorism,” and mobilize the repressive machinery of the state against the popu...

The rogues gallery at this "event"

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Inside America's Academic Gulags (w/ Rashid Khalidi) | The Chris Hedges Report It is now impossible, says historian Rashid Khalidi, to teach about Israel, Palestine and the ongoing genocide in elite American education institutions.

Inside America's Academic Gulags (w/ Rashid Khalidi) | The Chris Hedges Report
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

I'm shocked - SHOCKED (sarcasm).

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador
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Mossad ‘in contact from very beginning’ with killers of Italian PM, reporter reveals A roving reporter who covered Italy’s top politicians explains to The Grayzone how his country was reduced to a joint US-Israeli “aircraft carrier,” and raises troubling questions about an Israeli rol...

Mossad ‘in contact from very beginning’ with killers of Italian PM, reporter reveals
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Oregon National Guard Leader Laments Portland Deployment EXCLUSIVE: Leaked letter from Guard leader levels with troops on unpopular mission

Oregon National Guard Leader Laments Portland Deployment
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