I am excited to have been invited by Joe and Shirley to do a blog as part of this important virtual community. The focus of my blog will be on rethinking critical pedagogy. I take it as basic that any tradition must be able to fundamentally examine its assumptions in response to changing historical conditions; of course it is often easier not to do so. But if critical pedagogy is to remain vital, it has to be able to interrogate itself in a sustained manner. In this first blog I want to suggest a few reasons why such a rethinking is in order in the present.