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The Existential Status of The Simpsons

Pondering the Homeric Dasein of Springfield

March 11, 2019 • by Dominic Pettman

One of the ongoing jokes on The Simpsons -- which is currently celebrating 30 years on air, as the longest-running primetime scripted series on U.S. television -- is that the viewer is consistently denied knowledge of which state Springfield is located in. In a recent interview with podcaster Marc Maron, Krusty the Klown ...

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Too Good to Be True

Lessons Learned from Hudson Yards

March 10, 2019 • by Bridget Fisher and Flávia Leite

Amazon bailed on its HQ2 plans in Long Island City when residents started questioning the project’s billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies. Unfortunately, we didn’t ask the same questions concerning Hudson Yards, now set for a March 15 “grand opening.” Why? Probably because we were told the project wouldn’t cost ...

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More Denunciation of Omar, More Bullshit: Enough!

March 9, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

It’s all over the news. Ilhan Omar has done it again. This time it’s not “the Jews” she’s attacking. It is “Obama.” This headline, viral on Facebook, says it all: “Ilhan Omar Goes After Obama, Suggests He Was a Pretty Face’ Who Got Away with Murder.’” The source: a long piece at ...

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Comforting Lies or Unpleasant Truths?

The job of a historian

March 9, 2019 • by Muriel Blaive

After 25 years, I am still hearing the same objections to my historical work and the same dismissive attitude because of who I am, i.e. a woman and a foreigner. And yet, very few people seem to know what history is really about. Here are ten of the misconceptions that ...

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French Feminism at the Barricade

An Excerpt from “Daughters of 1968”

March 8, 2019 • by Lisa Greenwald

Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique of society and were ...

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Minding Race and Class in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Identity in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

March 7, 2019 • by Daniel Gaztambide

This essay was originally published on March 7 2019. Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided idea that psychoanalysis is an expensive luxury only for the wealthy. As opposed to most Latin American countries, where ...

Minding Race and Class in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

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What We Must Learn from the History of French Feminism

An interview with Lisa Greenwald

March 7, 2019 • by Lisa Greenwald and Josh Maserow

Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement , by Lisa Greenwald, is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique ...

What We Must Learn from the History of French Feminism

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Treating Borderline Personality Disorder in El Barrio

An Interview with Daniel Gaztambide

March 6, 2019 • by Daniel Gaztambide and Josh Maserow

Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided idea that psychoanalysis is an expensive luxury only for the wealthy. As opposed to most Latin American countries, where psychoanalysis is seen as a practice tied to ...

Treating Borderline Personality Disorder in El Barrio

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DNC Winter Meeting

Democratic National Committee held their winter meeting in Washington DC February 14-16

March 6, 2019 • by Jo Freeman

Members of the Democratic National Committee held their winter meeting in Washington DC February 14-16. The DNC has 447 members, including the Chairs and Vice Chairs of the 50 states plus 7 other entities. Most DNC members are elected from their states based on population. Members must be evenly divided ...

Blue Monday

In Defense of Ilhan Omar, Again

Did the House pass such a full-throated Resolution about anti-Semitism after Charlottesville, or after the recent Pittsburgh synagogue massacre?

March 5, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Ilhan Omar is again at the center of controversy, this time for remarks she made last week at a panel discussion at Busboys and Poets, a Washington, D.C. bookstore and restaurant. Omar’s “offending” comment was a reference to “the political influence in this country that says that it’s ok for ...

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Jussie Smollett, Christopher Hasson, and Debunking Psychics

Past Present Episode 169

March 5, 2019 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki discuss the scandal over Jussie Smollett’s alleged attack, Christopher Hasson’s terrorist plot, and how the internet is helping debunk mediums and psychics. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Actor Jussie Smollett is at the center of the nation’s latest high-profile racial ...

Jussie Smollett, Christopher Hasson, and Debunking Psychics

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Socialism and American Politics

A Brief Recollection (2009)

March 4, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Note: I recently found the piece below on an old hard drive. It was written on March 2, 2009, exactly ten years ago this weekend. It was written for the brand-new blog that Dissent Magazine was then starting. It was never published. I’m publishing it now for three reasons: (1) ...