In the name of academic improvement, lower expectations for minorities are institutitonalized. Well-meaning bigotry is still bigotry. Let’s backtrack. Florida and Virginia are two of more than 30 states who were granted waivers to the federal No Child Left Behind program. As it stood, No Child Left Behind — President George W. Bush’s signature education [...]

The porn industry produces 13,000 films a year, generating $10 to 15 billion in revenue. In comparison, the Hollywood film industry produces about 600 films a year and generates around nine to 10 billion dollars. These surprising figures on the presence of porn in our society were presented in Robert Jensen’s discussion last week, “Pornography [...]