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Reformed Mental Health Services for Kids Begin to Take Shape

A Center for New York City Affairs event

April 19, 2018 • by Abigail Kramer

After tense and uncertain budget negotiations, New York State will move forward with several pieces of its long-planned expansion of behavioral health services for children on Medicaid. This week, the Center for New York City Affairs hosted a panel of experts to talk about what's next for this reform: What the vision ...

Reformed Mental Health Services for Kids Begin to Take Shape

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Is Amartya Sen 21st Century’s ‘Great Critic’ of Capitalism?

A response to Tim Rogan

April 19, 2018 • by Aabid Firdausi and Nandita Shivakumar

Tim Rogan, in an essay recently published by Aeon, claims that Amartya Sen is the “Century’s Great Critic of Capitalism.” He states that Sen deserves this attribute because of his groundbreaking approach to capitalist critique, wherein he combines the moral and material critiques of capitalism that have hitherto remained two distinct ...

Is Amartya Sen 21st Century’s ‘Great Critic’ of Capitalism?

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How to Learn from Conservatives

Stop talking and listen

April 18, 2018 • by Claire Potter

In February, I was able to attend the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference, held annually in a conference center outside Washington, D.C. I live blogged two days of general sessions, interviewed people, heard numerous speakers, and was present at a Trump rally. I had the opportunity to talk to a ...

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Sinclair Broadcasting, Tony Robbins, and Early Admissions

Past Present Episode 126

April 18, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia debate the rise of Sinclair Broadcasting, life coach Tony Robbins’ dismissal of the #MeToo movement, and the fraught history of college early admissions.

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Sinclair Broadcasting, Tony Robbins, and Early Admissions

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The Formal Ethics of Metony#metoo

Poetics, Power, Primal Scene

April 18, 2018 • by Jamieson Webster and Kyoo Lee

Last year the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality published a panel called "The ontology of the rape joke," organized around a performance by Vanessa Place of her piece, "Rape joke." The panel included responses from Jamieson Webster, Jeff Dolven, Gayle Salamon, Kyoo Lee, Katie Gentile, and Virginia Goldner, and ended with ...

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Vicious Infrastructure

Security dams, military fortresses, and mosques in the “new” Turkey

April 17, 2018 • by Hakan Topal

The Turkish State is building a series of reservoirs alongside the Turkish-Iraqi border, not to produce electricity or to irrigate farms, but to prevent “terrorists” infiltrating from Iraq. At the same time, the state is installing military fortresses, called kalekol in Turkish, within Kurdish towns as a way to assert its powerful ...

Blue Monday

Damascus Blues

On the bombing of Syria

April 16, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington As promised by our Bloviator-in-Chief, we bombed Syria last Friday, inauspiciously the 13th of April. It was not the first time the United States has bombed Syria. The US has been conducting a low-intensity air war against ISIS, in ...

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Will Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize Psychotherapy?

The changing relationship between mind and machine

April 16, 2018 • by Kevin Rice

Whether it is an unhealthy YouTube fascination with Boston Dynamic’s robot dogs opening doors, Amazon’s Alexa on your coffee table, or Elon Musk’s ominous March 13th statement of “Mark my words -- AI is far more dangerous than nukes,” chances are the growing conversation of artificial intelligence has intruded in some way ...

Will Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize Psychotherapy?

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An Open Letter Regarding “Soros Mercenaries” at CEU

Michael Ignatieff, President and Rector of CEU

April 15, 2018 • by Michael Ignatieff

Dear Friends, Today, Hungarian media outlet Figyelo carried an article listing a few hundred people including members of the CEU community, who 'may' be on the list of so-called "Soros mercenaries." The publication of such a list is contemptible. CEU issued a press statement condemning this. This is a flagrant attempt ...

An Open Letter Regarding “Soros Mercenaries” at CEU

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Last Speaker of the House to Leave, Turn Out the Lights

Paul Ryan’s Decision to Quit

April 14, 2018 • by John Lawrence

It has been 32 years since a Speaker of the U.S House of Representatives has truly left office of his – or her – own volition. Paul Ryan has not been forced to resign like Jim Wright following a scandal or John Boehner following repeated defections by his own troops. ...

Last Speaker of the House to Leave, Turn Out the Lights

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Gray Memory

On a Self-limiting Collective Imagination

April 13, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” So wrote Milan Kundera. Years ago, I found in his bold assertion confirmation of the findings of my first major research project on the sociological dynamics of cultural freedom. I would like to think my study of ...