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MAGAcademy: How Corporatism Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of Higher Ed

MAGAcademy: How Corporatism Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of Higher Ed - Paperback

by Nolan Higdon
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nolan Higdon, Henry GirouxPublish date:3/9/2026Pages:212
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Third Rail CommunicationsISBN-13:9798218923174UPC:9798218923174Book Category:Education, Political Science, Social ScienceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.386Product ID:SCSM5BH5W4

In this searing indictment, Dr. Nolan Higdon uses deep research and personal narrative to reveal how forty years of corporatism hollowed out higher education. Transcending partisan talking points, Higdon delivers a dramatic takedown of both Republicans and Democrats, arguing that neoliberal institutions-where "student success" replaced actual learning and social justice rhetoric shielded managerial control-provided the infrastructure for the MAGAcademy. As a state-sanctioned model, the MAGAcademy lets markets, not scholars, dictate what is considered valuable knowledge. It weaponizes federal funding to enforce a conservative agenda, replacing critical inquiry with patriotic education and surveillance. Featuring a Foreword by Henry Giroux, Higdon offers a radical roadmap to reclaim the "Civic University" and save the American mind from corporate capture.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Third Rail CommunicationsISBN-13:9798218923174UPC:9798218923174Book Category:Education, Political Science, Social ScienceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.386Product ID:SCSM5BH5W4
Higdon, Nolan: - Nolan Higdon is a political analyst, author, host of The Disinfo Detox Podcast, lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Project Censored Judge. Higdon's popular Substack includes the bi-weekly Gaslight Gazette, which chronicles important and well-researched examples of disinformation, character assassination, and censorship in the United States. Higdon's areas of concentration include critical AI literacy, podcasting, digital culture, news media history & propaganda, and critical media literacy. All of Higdon's work is available at Substack (https: //nolanhigdon.substack.com/). He is the author of The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Lit-eracy Education (2020); Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy (2022); The Media And Me: A Guide To Critical Media Literacy For Young People (2022); and Surveillance Education: Navigating the conspicuous absence of privacy in schools (Routledge). Higdon is a founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas. Higdon is a regular source of expertise for CBS, NBC, The New York Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle.
Publisher: Third Rail Communications

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Nolan Higdon, Henry Giroux

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Nolan Higdon

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