Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said’s Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age of Educational Repression

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

The War at Home—State Terrorism on Full Display

Across the globe, we are living in a moment of profound crisis where the very essence of education as a democratic institution is under attack. In the United States, the assault on higher education is part of a broader war waged by authoritarian forces aiming to dismantle the pillars of not only academic freedom, dissent, and human rights, but also the essential foundations of democracy itself. Universities...