Challenges to Democracy in and Beyond Education: American Policy, Politics, and Media in a Cynical Age

This book explores political cynicism as a driving force at the heart of the current crisis of democracy in the United States, focusing on the crisis and the role of education, popular culture, and news media in fostering and fighting cynicism.

Richard Van Heertum is a full-time faculty member in the Liberal Arts and Sciences department at the New York Film Academy. He has previously taught at UCLA, CUNY, Drexel and the Art Institute, USA.