Semantics

I think I've finished my syllabus for this summer, after substituting things like "is pop culture distracting us from inequality?" for alternatives like "to paraphrase Marx, is pop culture the trendy club drug of the masses?" If my students go back to the US and their takeaway lessons are a crash course in socialist theory and the fine distinctions between ketamine and MDMA, something tells me their parents will be not be pleased.