Here is how the paperback edition of Illich's book Medical Nemesis looked in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This is the edition we firs...

This photograph appeared in the New York Times for Feb. 2, 1969, accompanying the paper's regular "Religion" column. The autho...

In 1972, Mother Earth News Magazine published an interview with Hartmut von Hentig , a German critic of education born in 1925. The interv...

Here , for the sake of completeness, is a 1973 book by Illich, En América Latina, para qué sirve la escuela , as scanned by and available, i...

A 2003 paper in memory of Illich, written by Carl Mitcham, has appeared online , for the first time at no cost to read. Originally published...

Anyone familiar with the life of Ivan Illich knows that he spent much of his time in Cuernavaca, a small city located about 50 miles south o...

Why New Scare City ? Some have wondered if that title is perhaps too dread-ful for writings that celebrate the thought of as peaceful person...

In 1970, we have read, a woman named Dorothy Norman wrote to her friend Indira Gandhi, the prime minister of India, urging her to read Ivan ...

We've just learned of a newly-released film that questions severely the idea of compulsory schooling, especially as encouraged and abett...

We had a good laugh back in 1982 when a friend recounted to us his visit to the opening of Epcot Center, an adjunct to Disneyworld down in O...