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Bilal Hamamra; Rebecca Ruth Gould – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
This article examines the factors contributing to the suppression of free speech in Palestine, with a focus on the West Bank. We argue that anti-democratic politics and restricted public discourse in both public and academic spheres are mutually reinforced by the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Authority. Despite education's potential as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, War
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Henry A. Giroux – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2024
This article examines how the concept of freedom has been appropriated by the far right to impose a number of authoritarian policies designed to dismantle the critical functions of public and higher education. It explores, in particular, the ways in which Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has used an appeal to freedom to punish critics,…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Educational Policy, Political Issues, Politics of Education
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den Heyer, Kent – Canadian Social Studies, 2018
[W]hen I hear people denounce our political scene as "post-truth," I have to wonder when exactly they think it was that politics was determined by the truth? The same goes for those who decry today's "fake news." […]To claim that with Trump's election we've entered a post-truth era of fake news is to claim that the U.S. was…
Descriptors: Ethics, Politics, Anti Intellectualism, Scholarship