Tag: corruption

What does Nan Goldin’s Artwork have to do with GIVING VOICE to the Less Powerful of Harvard, StFX, and Palestine?

Follow the Money.  A commitment to truth and justice marks the resistance of the less powerful against the exercise of institutional power. Again and again, that resistance collides with a familiar quid pro quo: the inscription of billionaire donors’ names on our most beloved cultural and educational institutions, and their influence on policy. Sackler at […]

Speaking Truth to Power – Speaking Truth to History

Quaecumque sunt vera. St. Francis Xavier University is making history.   For the first time in its history, the campus of “whatsoever things are true” and a leading edge interdisciplinary degree program — BASc in Climate and Environment—is naming a new building and a prestigious health research Institute in “honour” of a corruption accomplice, billionaire donor […]