A Web page devoted to Mother Jerome, Ivan Illich's friend and collaborator, can be viewed here . She was born Melanie “Muska” von Nagel ...

We just saw this in The New York Times, August 27, in a blog called The Well Column , and it made us think of Medical Nemesis : Overtreatmen...

We're deeply saddened to learn that Gene Burkart, a devoted and articulate reader of Ivan Illich, died this past Saturday. Gene visited ...

Here is a pair of photos made of Ivan Illich on television. He was appearing with John Holt. The photos appear on a site devoted to Holt...

… is the increasing use of schools as marketing channels for corporations trying to reach new generations of potential customer. OK, this ki...

We've just found a passenger list for the steamship that brought Ivan Illich to America in 1951. On Oct. 27, in Bremerhaven, Germany, th...

Ivan Illich's book Deschooling Society has been turned into an audiobook by a pair of amateur readers. Their readings of the book's...

In 1973, with his book Tools for Conviviality about to be published, Ivan Illich spoke to an audience at Newman Hall Holy Spirit Parish , w...

In 1971, Illich published Deschooling Society , and the book made him hugely popular as a public intellectual. Later that year, Illich publi...

If anyone has any doubts that Illich was correct in arguing that as schooling came in for criticism and questioning, the educational system ...