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Education Is for the People, Not the State: Moving Beyond the Public/Private Distinction

5 June 2026

Article · Philosophical Inquiry in Education Carl-Anders Säfström’s article in Philosophical Inquiry in Education, Volume 33, on why education belongs

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A Neoliberal Think Tank’s Historical Revisionism: When Ideology Masquerades as Fact

8 May 2026

Below follows Arete’s response to Fredrik Segerfeldt’s op-ed of 30 April 2026, titled “The working class would have been better

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