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Indictus: by Natalie Eilbert

A review

August 7, 2018 • by Sarah V. Schweig

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la diritta via era smarrita … Io non so ben ridir com’ io v’ entrai, tanto era pien di sonno in su quel punto che la verace via abbandonai ... —Dante Alighieri, Inferno 1. That words are “filthy” and yet poetry is redemptive is the provocative ...

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Institutionalizing Children, Referees, and Charlottesville

Past Present Episode 142

August 7, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia debate the history of the institutionalization of children, the thankless job of refereeing youth sports, and the legacy of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, one year after the Unite the Right rally. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: ...

Institutionalizing Children, Referees, and Charlottesville

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The Electoral Success of the Radical Right in Europe

Why are the Radical Right better at “capitalizing” on ‘Populism’ than the Radical Left?

August 7, 2018 • by Valerio Alfonso Bruno and James F. Downes

Contemporary Radical Right parties have tended to outperform Radical Left parties electorally in Europe, particularly in national parliamentary (legislative) elections during the post-economic crisis period. However, it is not clear why this is the case. Given the context of growing dissatisfaction towards the democratic establishment in which contemporary populism developed, ...

The Electoral Success of the Radical Right in Europe

Blue Monday

Compared to What? A Very Dark Thought about November

(and an electrifying and enduring song of resistance)

August 6, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington Last Thursday, August 2, the daily Lie Fest otherwise known as the Sarah Huckabee Sanders White House press briefing featured the country’s five top intelligence officials, who individually and collectively announced to the world that ...

Compared to What? A Very Dark Thought about November

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The Rhythm of Resilience

A Deep Ecology of Entangled Relationality

August 6, 2018 • by Karen Hopenwasser

Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma, edited by Jill Salberg and Sue Grand, takes a novel view in psychoanalysis using a trans-generational, social, political and cultural model to fathom trauma and its transmission. The view is radical in its departure from orthodox psychoanalytic trajectories ...

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How to Save 8.1 Million Seniors from Poverty by 2045

July 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55

August 5, 2018 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an unemployment rate of 3.1% for workers age 55 and older for the month of July, which represents no change from June. While the headline unemployment rate for older workers is at an historic low, an increasing share of older workers are in bad jobs with low and stagnant wages. Without access ...

How to Save 8.1 Million Seniors from Poverty by 2045

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Trump’s Outrageousness and Democratic Opportunity

Looking ahead to the midterm elections after Trump’s recent international misconducts

August 4, 2018 • by John Lawrence

O.K., pop quiz. Which name does not belong on the following list: Aaron Burr, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, Bob Hope and Donald Trump? After Monday’s eye-popping, breath-taking display of Trumpian obsequiousness and naiveté, the answer is pretty obvious. Old Ski Nose was a patriot, through and through. Not so Donald Trump, whose irresponsible, ...

Trump’s Outrageousness and Democratic Opportunity

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Public Space, Public Art, and Public Memory

Responding to the Neo-Nazi Trial Verdict in Jena

August 3, 2018 • by Irit Dekel

Jeffrey C. Goldfarb is off today. He has selected this piece on the complexities of public memory as this week's Gray Friday post. On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 the verdict of five of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) members was given in the Higher Regional Court in Munich. Beate Zschäpe, the ...

Public Space, Public Art, and Public Memory

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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of The Up Stairs Lounge Fire and The Rise of Gay Liberation

An excerpt from Robert W. Fieseler’s latest book

August 3, 2018 • by Robert W. Fieseler

The passage below is an excerpt from Robert W. Fieseler’s recently released book chronicling a heinous act of arson that resulted in the death of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at The Up Stairs Lounge -- a gay bar in New Orleans. By turns sedulous and ...

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of The Up Stairs Lounge Fire and The Rise of Gay Liberation

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Gustavo Petro and the Colombian Populist Moment

An interview with Luciana Cadahia

August 2, 2018 • by Gerardo Muñoz

Luciana Cadahia (Ph.D. Unidad Autónoma de Madrid [UAM]) is one of the most original voices in contemporary Latin American political thought. Although her academic work has focused on debates in political theory and the tradition of German Idealism, her recent interventions on populism and democratic theory are charged with a theoretical depth that ...

Gustavo Petro and the Colombian Populist Moment

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The Invention of “Gritty” New York

Where did nostalgia for gritty New York come from and what makes it so potent?

August 2, 2018 • by Zed Adams

Nostalgia for “gritty” New York is so strong, it’s surprising that someone hasn’t started selling cans of “authentic NYC grit” in Times Square. Evidence of this nostalgia is everywhere, from Jeremiah Moss’s Vanishing New York to David Simon’s The Deuce. But where did this nostalgia come from, and what makes ...

Education

On Beyond the Academy

When university profs don’t discuss retirement, we don’t discuss our hopes and dreams either

August 1, 2018 • by Claire Potter

Like many people, I aspire to using these decades well. Accomplishing this has something to do with how much work any of us has left in us, and if so, what that work will be and to whom, other than the students to whom many of us have devoted ourselves, ...