ABSTRACT
Education has lost its ties to creating critical citizens necessary to the functioning of a democratic public sphere. Under the regime of Donald Trump, the role of education in creating the formative cultures necessary to promote critical thinking, civic courage, social responsibility, and the knowledge and values necessary for creating critically engaged citizens, appear to be disappearing. Across the United States, the landscape and mission of higher education is changing so as to adopt the mission of business schools. One of the fundamental challenges facing educators within the age of an emerging authoritarianism worldwide is to create both safe and brave educational spaces for students to address “how knowledge is related to the power of self-definition” and social agency. The notion of a neutral, objective education is an oxymoron. Education and pedagogy do not exist outside of ideology, values, and politics.
