Thinking Dangerously in the Age of Normalized Ignorance

by Henry Giroux

Published in CounterPunch

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/30/thinking-dangerously-in-the-age-of-normalized-ignorance/.

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Richard John Stapleton is an emeritus professor of business policy, ethics, and entrepreneurship at Georgia Southern University, who taught business courses thirty-five years using the case method, having degrees in economics, organizational behavior, and management science from Texas Tech University, having a certification in transactional analysis from the International Transactional Analysis Association, who directed a Small Business Institute twenty-five years supervising student teams consulting with over three hundred small businesses in Southeast Georgia.