“I don’t have to respect your beliefs.  If you believe in God you’ve been brainwashed.  For some of you it’s already too late.”  This was the message heard by freshman biological science majors at the University of Minnesota’s “Nature of Life” course last summer.[1] The professor teaching the class told the students he was [...]

“Today I have a message…to the children, the students, the workers, the masses, and to the bloodsuckers, the parasites, the vampires who are the capitalists of the world.” [1]  So reads a passage from a textbook used in the ethnic studies curriculum in Tucson, Arizona’s public schools. That’s right, a reference to capitalist “parasites and [...]