Sep 28, 2022
"Increasing Numbers of US Students Look for a ‘Real’ World," read a 1965 headline from the magazine Moderator. "Academics: Get Real!," the Harvard Business Review implored in 2009. "‘Defund the police’ runs into reality," the Washington Post warned in 2021. "As Latin America Shifts Left, Leaders Face a Short...
Sep 21, 2022
"Why
Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old?,"
inquires The New York
Times. "Why Do Such
Elderly People Run America?," The Atlantic wonders. "Gerontocracy Is Hurting Democracy,"
insists New York
Magazine’s Intelligencer.
"Too old to run again? Biden faces questions about his age as
crises...
Sep 14, 2022
"Education... is a great equalizer of conditions of
men—the balance wheel of the social machinery," stated school
reformer Horace Mann in 1848. "Math is the great equalizer,"
preached Jaime Escalante, Edward James Olmos’ character, in the
1988 film Stand and
Deliver. "The best
anti-poverty program around is a...
Aug 3, 2022
A white collar worker wrestles with whether to accept a promotion or help his co-workers organize. Salt miners stand up to the company that’s taken over their town. A factory worker exposes her employer’s union-busting tactics.
Stories like these represent something we don’t often see in Hollywood: Unions and...
Ep 164: Labor Union Depictions in Hollywood (Part I): From Demonized to Ignored or Mafia Plot Cliche
Jul 27, 2022
Chances are you’ve seen this storyline play out on
either a big or small screen: An FBI agent investigates a prominent
labor leader. Or maybe a union boss orders a hit on a recalcitrant
member of the rank-and-file. Or perhaps a union president skims
money off a pension fund to make an illegal loan.
Plotlines like...