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The article discusses conflicts involving a Maoist insurgency in India as of the winter of 2013 in terms of psychoanalyst Frantz Fanon's theory of revolutionary violence. The author explores the possibility of violence as an effective anti-colonial resistance strategy and special attention is paid to Fanon's book "The Wretched of the Earth." Other topics include author Arundhati Roy, capitalism, and human rights activist K. Balagopal.

An essay is presented that discusses ideological and financial challenges to British universities, noting the loss of public funding and tuition increases. It is said that philosopher A. C. Grayling has started a for-profit liberal arts school, the New College of the Humanities (NCHUM) in response. Other topics include comparison of British university funding to public funding of U.S. higher education, political activism by students and faculty members, and the relation of the humanities to neoliberal ideology.