John Ambrosio is a former associate professor of Social Foundations in the Department of Educational Studies at Ball State University. He received a Core Fulbright Scholar Program grant to teach and conduct research in the Faculty of Education at the University of the Free State in South Africa and authored the book Educational leadership for transformation and social justice: Narratives of change in South Africa. Dr. Ambrosio’s scholarship is primarily concerned with issues of equity and social justice in public education. His most recent article, Problematizing truth-telling in a post-truth world: Foucault, parrhesia, and the psycho-social subject, examines how truth-tellers and truth-telling can be cultivated, as a practical activity of self-improvement, in the context of post-truth politics in the United States. Email: jambrosio57 [at] gmail.com
by John Ambrosio In a recent speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, drew on a paper written by the renowned Czech dissident, and later president, Václav Havel that discussed how totalitarian regimes, like the former Soviet Union, seek to control the population by providing individuals with…
by John Ambrosio In a recent interview in the New York Times Magazine, Robert Reich, a progressive university teacher and prolific writer, who worked in three presidential administrations, including serving as Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor, commented that his views of conservatives had changed because of a close friendship with Alan Simpson, a former Republican…