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The Trump administration is killing off the Department of Education. Sometimes, it seems opposed to the very idea of educating Americans—teaching them to think, to become scientists, historians, humanists. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich takes a very different view. And we’re going to get together for a Substack Live on Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET to discuss it. Mark your calendar now!
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Reich has made a movie about education, The Last Class, which I got wind of when it showed up on the schedule at Birmingham, Alabama’s Sidewalk Film Festival (where it will show May 5 and 6, tickets here if you’re local). There will be other opportunities to see Reich’s movie, The Last Class, which is literally about his last class at Cal Berkeley. If you love education—as the daughter of a preschool teacher, I do—this is a surprisingly emotional watch, even as it confronts some of the most important issues we face.
I know many of you read Secretary Reich’s substack, and I’m excited about the opportunity to discuss law and justice with him. Please leave your questions for us in the chat, as we discuss the themes from his class and the movie, which focus on wealth and poverty, and the income inequalities that have widened significantly since the late 1970s. Those of you who’ve read my book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy, may recall a conversation I had with my youngest son, Ollie, that I relate in it. For his generation, the issue of concentrated wealth and how it infects our politics and our society is a critical one, one we need to take head-on if we hope to convince them that democracy is worth fighting for in the long haul.
We’re in this together,
Joyce
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