Month: December 2010

In our reply to Piers Robinson, below, we try to show how ‘objective scholarship’, like ‘objective journalism’, all too often filters out what really matters. Moreover, as in journalism, the scholar’s obsession with objectivity tends →

Exchanges With Piers Robinson of The University Of Manchester What happened to academia? In 2008, Terry Eagleton, formerly Professor of English Literature at Manchester University, wrote: “By and large, academic institutions have shifted from being the →

FOLLOW-UP ALERT ON ISRAEL’S POLICY OF NEAR-STARVATION FOR GAZA On November 17, we sent out a media alert that highlighted the corporate media’s lack of interest in official documents revealing Israel’s deliberate policy of near-starvation →