Frederick Wiseman's latest documentary about the effects of the neoliberal agenda on Berkeley has been attracting a good deal of attention and commentary.  As the latter piece points out, the Reagan revolution from the right has basically continued through multiple Democratic Administrations, and one of the casualties has been the idea of "public" higher education.  From a Marxist point of view, none of this is surprising–what will be surprising is whether nominally democratic capitalist societies actually reverse course.  I'm not hopeful, but also hope I'm wrong!

(Thanks to Joshua Niland for the pointers.)