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Education

Harvard’s Microcosm of Labor Inequality

Organizing the Ivory Tower

February 14, 2017 • by Cristina Groeger

Universities are a microcosm of the increasing inequality we see across society. Every year, adjunct faculty, post-doctoral researchers, student workers, clerical and technical staff, dining service employees, security workers, and janitorial staff are bearing the burden of jobs that impose more work and provide less security. In response to the ...

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Sitting To Stand

Protest, Patriotism, and the Endurance of White Supremacy

February 13, 2017 • by Michael Sasha King

Since San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to stay seated during the national anthem, this country has witnessed an extended attempt to diminish his act. Former quarterback Boomer Esiason said that Kaepernick was “about as disrespectful as any athlete has ever been,” whereas Hall of Fame baseball manager Tony ...

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Trumpism – How Should the Left Respond?

Dissent Editors and Contributors Debate how the Left can defeat Trump

February 10, 2017 • by Julia Ott

Dissent editors and contributors debated how the left can defeat Trumpism. Featuring: Bhaskar Sunkara is editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine. Nancy Fraser is a professor of philosophy and politics at The New School for Social Research and author, most recently, of Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal ...

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Democrats, Republicans and the Explosive Politics of Health Insurance

Theda Skocpol

February 8, 2017 • by Zeyno Ustun

Democrats, Republicans and the Explosive Politics of Health Insurance

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Protesting the Inaugural

Reactions from Washington, D.C. on January 20th

February 8, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Protesting the inauguration of a President has become a tradition. While those who shouted “not my President” and other things as Donald Trump ascended to the highest office in the land clearly did not like him, most of them would have demonstrated had it been Hillary Clinton who took the ...

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Durkheim’s Enduring Relevance

Sociology offers a solution to the problems raised by Critical Theory

February 7, 2017 • by Nicola Marcucci

Émile Durkheim and the Durkheimian school also allow us to rethink the tension between the modern social sciences, and morality and politics. However, Durkheim’s analysis of this tension is, in some respects, divergent from the one put forward by Critical Theory. Sociology, according to Durkheim, is neither about supplementing the ...

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“We Are At War!”

Steve Bannon’s Warmongering

February 6, 2017 • by Robert Ivie

“We’re in a war. We’re clearly going into, I think, a major shooting war in the Middle East, again.” November 27, 2015 “It’s war. It’s war. Every day, we put up America’s at war. America’s at War. We’re at war.” December 14, 2015 - Steve Bannon A warmonger, by definition, is someone who promotes ...

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Truth and Politics at The New School and Beyond

Media and Politics in Dark Times II

February 5, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The executive order on immigration and refugees is abomination on many counts. The way it is affecting my students keeps me awake. Their studies could be disrupted. Students may not be able to return to the university. Others are locked in, not able to leave the country for fear that ...

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The Intellectual Integrity of Our Spaces

The Proposed Boycott of International Academic Conferences

February 3, 2017 • by Claire Potter

This morning it was brought to my attention that this boycott, and the AHA's response to the executive order itself, was being discussed on an AHA members' forum as an offense to US academic freedom. I do not have the right to reproduce what was said on a private forum, ...

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The Supreme Law of the Land

Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline

February 3, 2017 • by Jeffrey Ostler and Nick Estes

Donald Trump’s election only enhanced the sense that the fight is not won. Not only has Trump held financial interest in the pipeline (and likely still does), he is a friend of the fossil fuel industry and has never shown respect for American Indian nations. Pipeline advocates have challenged the Standing ...