Abstract
In this article I illustrate the many ways in which life in post–September 11 America is both a rupture from some of the antigovemment politics that dominated before these tragic events and an uncanny continuity from the pre–September 11 worship of global capitalism and the virtual abandonment of any effort to create greater equality. In showing both these ruptures and continuities, I hope to help educators contemplate the role that public schools might play in facilitating an alternative discourse grounded in a critique of militarism, consumerism, and racism. Such an alternative discourse would redefine democracy as something separate and distinct from the hyper–individualized market-based relations of capitalism and the retrograde appeal to jingoistic patriotism.
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