Click here to read my most recent opinion piece, which I co-authored with John-Patrick Schultz for Truthout. It is entitled “Who’s Afraid of Direct Action on Campus? Mobilizing Pedagogy Against the Powerful,” and it is part of our activities for the Radical Education Department (RED).

Excerpt: “The answer to the question, ‘Who’s afraid of direct action on campus?’ should now be obvious: those inculcated by the indirect action of institutionalized indoctrination, as well as those who seek — usually through clandestine means and dark money — to use these institutions for their own reactionary agenda. They have much to learn from the coming intellectual insurrections and the intensifying waves of mobilization in the name of direct action education, which is an essential force against the increasingly aggressive right-wing cooptation of institutions of higher learning (which we have witnessed yet again at the University of Virginia and Charlottesville). [… read more]”