Understanding the world by learning its truths.

First created for our fraternal site Cyrano’s Journal,  VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY is a space specifically devoted to materials that people should have acquired in college but for a variety of reasons, including the degradation of higher education in the United States  (making it more “vocational”), and the strong bourgeois bias that permeates all disciplines, never did.  Stay tuned, as we are still working on a very large curriculum backlog and more essays of lasting quality may be posted at any time.

EMPOWERING ESSAYS

Michael Parenti: Marxism & the Crisis in Eastern Europe (1990)

Our Hidden History: Published on Nov 4, 2016 / Lecture on Marxism & Capitalism Michael Parenti is a brilliant orator ...
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The Joke’s on You—(Don’t ever say Steve Almond didn’t warn you).

STEVE ALMOND—In a 1906 address at Carnegie Hall entitled “Taxes and Morals,” Mark Twain lambasted plutocrats who advertised their piety ...
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Propaganda in World War 1, an Illustrated Account

TERJE MALOY—There is nothing new about liberal social reformers falling into lockstep when the country goes to war. British Emmeline ...
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TEXAS: POLITICS AND RELIGION, GOOD AND EVIL IN THE WORLD TODAY

JOAQUIN FLORES—Scott Peck, the brilliant psychiatrist and theologian, wrote a book, People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human ...
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Why Forests are the Best ‘Technology’ to Fight Climate Change

JENNIFER MORGAN—While greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and the destruction of forests and peatlands contribute heavily to climate change, the ...
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Capitalism is killing the world’s wildlife, not ‘humanity’

ANNA PIGOTT—By naming capitalism as a root cause, on the other hand, we identify a particular set of practices and ...
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