{"id":12264,"date":"2018-07-11T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=12264"},"modified":"2018-07-11T17:16:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T23:16:38","slug":"july-14-2018-john-j-higgins-and-barb-adams-week-in-review-robert-gleason-the-evil-that-men-do-dr-harry-c-boyte-democracys-education-ken-goldstein-critical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=12264","title":{"rendered":"July 14, 2018 – John J. Higgins and Barb Adams, Week in Review | Robert Gleason, The Evil That Men Do | Dr. Harry C. Boyte, Democracy’s Education | Ken Goldstein, Critical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hour 1 – John J. Higgins and Barb Adams (Live), Week in Review<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Join Barb and John as they discuss some of the top stories from the past week, offering their own insights and opinions.<\/p>\n

Hour 2 – Robert Gleason (Rebroadcast), The Evil That Men Do<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Joining the show during the second hour is bestselling author and nationally-recognized nuclear terrorism expert, Robert Gleason<\/strong>. Robert will be discussing his latest novel, The Evil That Men Do.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Income inequality and the offshore hoarding of illicit black funds have reached such extremes that the earth\u2019s democracies are in peril. The oligarchs are taking over\u2026<\/p>\n

As Bob Gleason notes in his book, The Evil That Men Do<\/em>, eventually \u201cpower and \"\"wealth concentrate in fewer and fewer hands,\u201d and, as Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, \u201cWe can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can\u2019t have both.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Gleason, \u201c\u2026the world\u2019s ultra-rich hide one-third of the planet\u2019s annual GDP in offshore black-money accounts and pay no taxes on it. One hundred plutocrats spend more money financing America\u2019s dominant political party than all other contributors put together.\u201d And in Russia, \u201cPutin is arguably the biggest thief in world history. His critics maintain he and his oligarchs have stolen 100% of Russia\u2019s GDP. Worth over $200 billion, Putin is easily the wealthiest man on Earth with two and one half times as much money as the planet\u2019s second biggest billionaire, Jeff Bezos.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ultra-rich today, Gleason continues, \u201cmake their money exploiting people in ways that have no redeeming social value\u2026and many of these billionaires are extremists. Some have had parents and grandparents who had trafficked with Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bob Gleason will discuss current geo-political entanglements as well as how he believes an oligarchic takeover is happening in America today.<\/p>\n

Robert Gleason is an Executive Editor at Macmillan Publishers in New York City. He has written seventeen books\u2014six of them on nuclear terrorism. His current novel is\u00a0The Evil That Men Do.<\/em>\u00a0 Gleason starred in a History Channel two-hour special, which was devoted largely to nuclear terrorism, has discussed nuclear terrorism on PBS, NPR, Coast to Coast AM<\/em> with George Noory, the Sean Hannity<\/em> and Lou Dobbs<\/em> TV Shows, on hundreds of other shows and has spoken on the subject four times at Harvard.\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Gleason has also worked with inmates in over 60 prisons, and New York has named a day after him for the work he\u2019s done for prison literacy. He also recently succeeded in getting the anti-nuclear activist nun, Sister Megan Rice, to get released from prison.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit https:\/\/robertgleasonbooks.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hour 3 – Dr. Harry C. Boyte (Rebroadcast), Democracy’s Education<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Joining the show during the third hour is Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy at the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship at Augsburg College, Dr. Harry C. Boyte<\/strong>.\u00a0 Dr. Boyte will be discussing his book, Democracy\u2019s Education:\u00a0 Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Americans feel powerless in the face of problems on every front. Such feelings are acute in higher education, where educators are experiencing an avalanche of changes such as cost cutting, new technologies, and demands that higher education be narrowly geared to the needs of today\u2019s workplace.\u00a0 College graduates face mounting debt and uncertain job prospects, and worry about a coarsening of the mass culture and the erosion of authentic human relationships.\u00a0 Higher education is increasingly seen, and often portrays itself, as a ticket to individual success\u2013a private good, not a public one.<\/p>\n

Harry Boyte will delve into the idea that Americans feel powerless to address the mounting problems that face this country, while advising educators to claim and use their sometimes unappreciated power in the face of these problems.\u00a0 He challenges them to lead a \"Democracy'sEducationBOOKCOVER\"<\/a>movement in the rethinking of education, the meaning of citizenship, the state of the working world in today\u2019s society, and the challenge of addressing public issues. Boyte believes education is \u201cthe anchoring institution of citizenship,\u201d which shapes public identities and career paths of students and influences the methods and structures of many professions.\u00a0 Boyte coordinated an association, called the American Commonwealth Partnership, of several hundred colleges and universities, to strengthn higher education as a public good.<\/p>\n

Dr. Harry C. Boyte is Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy at the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship at Augsburg College, a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota\u2019s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa.\u00a0 He is the author of eight previous books, and his work has appeared in more than 150 publications including Huffington Post, New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Political Theory, <\/em>and Change. <\/em> His commentary has appeared on CBS This Morning, CBS Evening News, <\/em>and National Public Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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