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What Does the Supreme Court’s Decision on the Trump Executive Order Mean for Refugees?

A Hopeful View

June 27, 2017 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

The commentary on the Supreme Court’s decision on the Trump Executive Orders has largely focused on the part of the Orders that imposed the travel ban on six predominantly Muslim countries. Less noticed have been the paragraphs at the end of the decision that discuss the Orders’ suspension of the ...

What Does the Supreme Court’s Decision on the Trump Executive Order Mean for Refugees?

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In this Uncontainable Night

Notes from Jerusalem and the Occupied West Bank

June 27, 2017 • by Judy Roth

This is the beginning of my tenth year thinking about and witnessing the impact of occupation on Israeli and Palestinian families and, to some extent, on those of us living further away. And a question hovers that I cannot avoid: What lingers? What lingers are the “uncontainable nights”[1] of incursion and ...

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What’s With Japanese Women?

Motherhood and Gender Inequality

June 26, 2017 • by Frances McCall Rosenbluth

Japan ranks 114th out of 144 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Gender Equality Index. Fewer than half of working age women have jobs, and many of those are part time positions without benefits. Women working in full time jobs can expect 73% of the hourly wage of their male ...

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Margaret Fuller’s “Conversations” as 19th Century Podcasts

The Best is Lost

June 23, 2017 • by Lora Burnett

If the ante-bellum nineteenth century journalist, Transcendentalist, and feminist Margaret Fuller were alive today, she would have a podcast. Before Fuller’s premature death in 1850, female intellectuals had few outlets for expressing their ideas. Hers was conversation, written and spoken. In conversation with others -- Horace Greeley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo ...

Margaret Fuller’s “Conversations” as 19th Century Podcasts

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Revisiting the Scourge of Human Folly

A Review of Charles Ludlam’s ‘The Artificial Jungle’

June 22, 2017 • by Dara Levendosky

“A theme that threatens to destroy one’s whole value system. Treat the material in a madly farcical manner without losing the seriousness of the theme. Show how paradoxes arrest the mind. Scare yourself a bit along the way.” – Charles Ludlam During the 1960s, New York City experienced a surge in ...

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The Climate of Post-Truth Populism

Science vs. the People

June 21, 2017 • by Amanda Machin, Alexander Ruser and Nikolaus von Andrian Werburg

Has politics ever been about telling the truth? Recent declarations of the rise of a “post-truth” era irresistibly provoke this question. Declared the 2016 Word of the Year, “post-truth” describes “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” One of ...

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In the Wake of the Manchester Attack

Terrorism’s assault on the young

June 20, 2017 • by Walied Ali

On the 22nd of May 2017, the city of Manchester in the United Kingdom became the new front line of the war against terror. At the conclusion of a concert by American singer, Ariana Grande, a 22 year old suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of the Manchester ...

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Have Muslims Replaced Jews as the Other of the Twenty-First Century?

An excerpt from ‘Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought’

June 19, 2017 • by Chad Alan Goldberg

The rise of Muslims as a prominent ethnoreligious minority in Western Europe and the United States raises a pertinent question for this study: Have they taken the position formerly occupied by Jews as a foil for the construction of modern European and American identities? Numerous scholars have suggested such a ...

Have Muslims Replaced Jews as the Other of the Twenty-First Century?

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When White Houses Go Dark

Watergate and the Lessons of History

June 17, 2017 • by Claire Potter

Forty-five years ago today, all the President's men were nervously awaiting the fallout from a break-in at an office at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. where the Democratic National Committee had established its 1972 campaign headquarters. Naughty, naughty. The White House's shadow arm was a jolly crew nicknamed "the Plumbers." Among ...

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Our New Walls

The Rise of Separation Barriers in the Age of Globalization

June 16, 2017 • by Julia Sonnevend

Separation barriers might seem archaic in a “globalizing” world, but they are increasingly popular worldwide. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, at least forty countries have built new walls. There are more separation walls now than there were in the fateful year of 1989, the year that had symbolically ...

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The Captivity of Otto Warmbier

Outsiders, Insiders, and Mad Kings

June 15, 2017 • by Ann M. Little

I’ve followed Warmbier’s story as closely as I can -- as closely as any of us can at this remove from the DPRK’s closed society, one dominated by an autocratic regime that is itself ruled by the whims of a mad king. At the same time, I have thought about ...

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Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

How I Can’t Stop Worrying About the Bomb and the Threat to Democracy in America

June 14, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

So it’s Donald Trump’s birthday today. Too bad Marilyn Monroe isn’t around. Nothing less than her famous greeting to John F. Kennedy would satisfy his outsized ego. His needs are profoundly disturbing, as indicated by the spectacle of the first meeting of his full cabinet. I strongly recommend that you view this ...