It’s important to know at least some of your contemporary heroes, here they are: Julian Assange, Amy Goodman, Slavoj Žižek, together on DemocracyNow. They talk about the nature of the “democracy” you’re living in. Here’s the continuation, on the Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Bank of America and Western Union, performing a months-long economic blockade on Wikileaks, [...]

Here’s a one hour interview with Julian Assange at Democracy Now!, dated 31 Dec. 2010.

My advocacy for various things will startle some readers, since people often think professors should stay in their ivory towers and “be above it all” (or at least “out of it”). But I think, to the contrary, that professors have an obligation to speak what they believe to be the truth, especially when they see [...]