By: Paul Muench

I wonder if it might help to rename Ethnic Studies to Power Studies. Stanford Business School students pay a lot of money to take Jeffrey Pfeffer’s Paths to Power course. We shouldn’t just leave that type of opportunity to the elites. One of his points is that people are squeamish about talking explicitly about power. But given we have democratic governments it sure seems like it’s a good idea for people to understand and question who should wield power for what purposes and how that power can be used.