Class struggle

...figures in daily life." I am not sure I understand the math, particularly the D + C =10,000, but I learned to trust Marty. At Class Struggle we welcome other examples of algebra affecting our routine existence. No comments have...

...hyper-egalitarianism - which perhaps should not be surprising in a country whose political class remains steeped in the Marxist obsession with class struggle, and whose health-care establishment is singularly obsessed with opposition to...

In this article: Parole, Irrationality, Itunes, Simon Fraser University, and Calgary Flames

...Left Behind. The department's assistant secretary for communications and outreach, Peter Cunningham, had an interesting idea for a way Class Struggle readers could participate in the labeling of the new act. I will put up a post on this...

In this article: Arne Duncan, Usdoe, NCLB, Steven Levitt, and Stipulation

I often interview educators and gather data to find which high schools are doing the best job teaching kids. It is satisfying work, with the biggest payoff in visiting those schools and telling them how good they are compared to others.

In this article: Maryland, Martin O'Malley, Washington Monthly, American college, and Columbia University

...clearly designed to send a message. Story continues below But Mikhail Gorbachev's role also was important. He abandoned the communist "class struggle" dogma, then made it clear he would not hold on to the Soviet satellite states by...

In this article: Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, United States, Pizza, Ideology, E mail, Communism, Capitalism, and World War II

...satellite countries. Then, in a speech at the UN in December 1988, Gorbachev left no doubt. He abandoned the concept of "international class struggle'' that had underpinned Soviet foreign policy, discarded the Brezhnev Doctrine, and...

In this article: Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, Archie Brown, Ideology, Fletcher School, 1988 Presidential Election, and Tufts University

...the paper, too. Arts & Letters Daily; kind of a clipping service for interesting stuff presented in a reasonably erudite manner. Class Struggle: I read everything POST education reporter Jay Mathews writes, on whatever subject and in...

In this article: Facebook, Bill Simmons, NPR, Washington, D.C., Google, Arlington, Bran Buds, and Suicide

My incomparable colleague Jay Mathews--czar of Class Struggle and author extraordinaire, has put out a best education blogs list for the last two years. Now we are doing it together. When he started the list, neither of us were bloggers.

By The Post's Jay Mathews in his Class Struggle blog: Arne Duncan is the latest in a splendid crop of U.S. education secretaries over the last few decades. The ones I have known best include, in alphabetical order: Bill Bennett, Rod...

In this article: Arne Duncan, Margaret Spellings, Rod Paige, and U.S.

...persecuted and killed were defined as politically and morally corrupt and a danger to a superior social system. The Marxist doctrine of class struggle provided ideological support for mass murder. People were persecuted not for what they...

In this article: Communism, Nazism, Iron Curtain, Ideology, Coercion, Capitalism, Cato Institute, and University of Massachusetts at Amherst