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Education

Tiny Houses, Narrow Visions

Examining American inequality through the problem of teacher housing

January 24, 2018 • by Nick Juravich

This past December, the Vail School District, in the suburbs of Tucson, Arizona, stumbled briefly into the national spotlight when it announced a plan to build tiny homes for teachers who couldn’t otherwise afford to live in the district. Starting salaries for Arizona teachers are $36,000 a year, while the median income in ...

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Be Here Now

A review of 1997: The Future that Never Happened

January 23, 2018 • by Alex Niven

My abiding memory of 1997 is of a music video that emerged towards the end of the year. Officially a charity single for Children in Need, but actually an encomium for the BBC and its license fee, the all-star cover of Lou Reed’s ‘Perfect Day’ released in late November was ...

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‘Witch-Hunt’

Gender madness and hidden reversals

January 23, 2018 • by Adrienne Harris

On February 8, 2018, The New School will host an event entitled "Sexual Harassment and Assault: Eros, Power, Violation, and Consent." Psychologist Jeremy Safran will moderate a panel featuring Lew Aron and Adrienne Harris from NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Katie Gentile from John Jay College of Criminal ...

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Milo in Berkeley

Further reflections on the renewed academic free speech debate

January 23, 2018 • by Michael Weinman

What light if any, I will ask here, does this claim shine on the larger discourse about academic free speech, specifically as that discussion has come to focus, for historical and strategic reasons, on UC-Berkeley. The proximal cause of Berkeley’s centrality is the shutdown of an intended speech by Milo ...

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“They’re Not Sending Their Best”

The problem with the merit narrative in U.S. immigration

January 22, 2018 • by Sarah Sklaw

Gathered atop a boulder in Central Park the weekend after the Trump administration rescinded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), activists with the Cosecha movement channeled their frustration through a battle-worn bullhorn. Leading an estimated 3,000 protesters, Cosecha organizers marched from the Trump International Hotel in Columbus Circle, past the New ...

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Radical Objects

A Refugee’s Life Jacket at Manchester Museum

January 22, 2018 • by Bryan Sitch

In early December 2016, I found myself in a small twin propeller aeroplane above the Aegean Sea buffeted by strong winds, the sea beneath us roiling whilst my fellow passengers quietly crossed themselves. I was travelling to Lesvos to collect a refugee’s life jacket for Manchester Museum’s collecting life project. In ...

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Alt-Right Asian Fetish, Temporary Protected Status, and Raw Water

Past Present Episode 114

January 21, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil debate the Asian fetish of some alt-right white nationalists, President Trump’s plan to revoke protections for Salvadorans, and the raw water craze.

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Alt-Right Asian Fetish, Temporary Protected Status, and Raw Water

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The Long Shadow

The legacy of the Moynihan Report and the limits of postwar liberalism

January 20, 2018 • by Brian Caterino

In Rochester NY, where I live, a recent poverty initiative has been proposed to address some of the most deeply entrenched poverty areas of this country. History casts its long shadow over the understanding of poverty evinced by these initiatives. Short on proposals to empower the community, the reading lists ...

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Is There No Feminism With Capitalism?

Reading Public Seminar, Thinking about the Relationships between Gender Justice and Free Public Life

January 19, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The developing debate over #MeToo and the MeToo backlash raises critical questions concerning the broad and deep struggles for democracy and social justice, perhaps the most central: are gender justice and capitalism compatible? Many of my friends and colleagues think not. I disagree. My dissent from the leftist consensus of my ...

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Give a Woman an Inch, She’ll Take a Penis

Backlash and the fragility of privilege

January 19, 2018 • by Katie Gentile

On February 8, 2018, The New School will host an event entitled "Sexual Harassment and Assault: Eros, Power, Violation, and Consent." Psychologist Jeremy Safran will moderate a panel featuring Lew Aron and Adrienne Harris from NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Katie Gentile from John Jay College of Criminal ...

Give a Woman an Inch, She’ll Take a Penis

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Beyond Ekphrasis

Writing your heart out in a museum

January 18, 2018 • by Maureen Buchanan Jones

Enter any museum, traditional, contemporary, technological, scientific, historical, and you see people moving slowly, standing quietly, observing. All well and good. People arrive in museums to learn and understand art. They study the installation; they ingest the presented explanation and interpretation. Perfectly reasonable and expected. As a young person taken to ...

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How the “Pussyhat” Became a Feminist Fashion Icon

Feminists have long had a fraught relationship with fashion. But the pussyhat looks set to change that.

January 18, 2018 • by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

Almost a year ago, a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, hundreds and thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. to protest the president’s policies towards women, LGBTQ, Muslims, immigrants and other minorities. The world looked on with awe at the sea of pink that formed on the Great Lawn; in ...