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Education

The Campus Speech Wars

You have conservative students, so teach them

January 17, 2018 • by Claire Potter

In the coming weeks, I want to write more about the meaning of free speech, how we understand free speech differently depending on how and where we are positioned, and whether our difficulty in listening to--and understanding--each other is a crucial context for exercising our first amendment rights. But since ...

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The Many Faces of the #MeToo Backlash

From Weinstein to The New School: Push back against sexual harassment allegations is gathering steam

January 17, 2018 • by Maryam Omidi

For every allegation of sexual assault or harassment there seems to be both a wave of solidarity and also a backlash. The #MeToo campaign, which garnered 1.7 million tweets in 86 countries by October 24, 2017 just nine days after actress Alyssa Milano kick started it in response to allegations of sexual ...

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Toward a Feminist Definition of Feminism

A historical exploration of the word, ‘Feminism’

January 16, 2018 • by Hannah Leffingwell

Recently, Merriam-Webster announced that its “Word of the Year” -- the most looked-up word in 2017 -- was feminism. Use of the word spiked nearly 70% this year, especially in the wake of the Women’s March. Look-ups of the word also spiked after Kellyanne Conway claimed that she was not a feminist ...

Toward a Feminist Definition of Feminism

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Why Is Trump’s Authoritarianism So Hard for Some to Recognize?

Responding to Corey Robin

January 16, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Corey Robin asks, “If authoritarianism is looming in the U.S., how come Trump looks so weak?” He has posed this question many times in the past year, and always to the same effect: Trump looks weak because he is weak, and his weakness proves that “authoritarianism” is not “looming.” Robin likes to ...

Why Is Trump’s Authoritarianism So Hard for Some to Recognize?

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Nowhere is Somewhere

Solidarity and the space between nations

January 15, 2018 • by Siobhan Kattago

Since the Brexit referendum in June 2016 and the election of Donald Trump in November 2016, there has been a distinct shift away from a liberal international order based on supranational organizations supporting human rights, freedom and equality towards the primacy of the nation-state. Moreover, sentiments of fear and resentment ...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Greater Vision

Bending the arc of time towards justice

January 15, 2018 • by Kristopher Burrell

When I sat down to write this essay, I began a process of learning, re-learning, and un-learning about Dr. King. As I began to read a sampling of the works that other scholars have written about him, as well as his speeches and other writings, I once again encountered the ...

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Greater Vision

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Imagination and Interpretation

On the dialogue between Cornelius Castoriadis and Paul Ricoeur

January 15, 2018 • by Alexandros Schismenos

On March 9th, 1985, Paul Ricoeur and Cornelius Castoriadis met at the studio of the France Culture "Le Bon Plaisir" radio broadcaster. In 2016, the transcript of their dialogue, their only public debate, was published [1]. This publication is significant not only because it highlights the points of convergence and divergence ...

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The Myth of Black Confederates

And the rise of fake racial tolerance

January 14, 2018 • by Benjamin Alpers

One of the latest Confederate monument fights is currently brewing in South Carolina. State Representatives Bill Chumley and Mike Burns have proposed erecting a monument to black Confederate soldiers. The problem, of course, is that there were no black Confederate soldiers. The Confederate government refused to allow blacks to enlist ...

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The Trump Tax Trap: Can New Yorkers Escape It?

Urban Matters talks with James Parrott

January 13, 2018 • by James Parrott

On Jan. 16th, Governor Andrew Cuomo will present New York State’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year. Earlier this month, in his State of the State address, he previewed some possible major tax overhauls designed to offset the potentially punishing blows to State finances resulting from the recently passed ...

The Trump Tax Trap: Can New Yorkers Escape It?

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“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”

Reflections on a provocative presidential question

January 12, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Some of my best friends come from “shithole countries.” “Oriental,” Latin American and African: they’re not white, wealthy or Christian. They don’t come from countries like Norway. According to the President of the United States, they are undesirables. When considering immigration, Trump reached, yet again, a new low. The racism and ...

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Thinking After C’ville

A meditation on more of the same

January 12, 2018 • by Marcus Toure B. McCullough

Reverend Marcus Toure B. McCullough is a pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a graduate Morehouse College, and has earned masters degrees in divinity and sacred theology from Harvard Divinity School and Boston University School of Theology.

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Racial Preference and Grindr

The enduring erotics of colonialism

January 11, 2018 • by Dominic Reilly

Beyond preference vs. prejudice At what point does preference become discrimination? This question was used to frame a recent video produced by Grindr exploring the increasingly prominent topic of “race” and so-called “racial preferences” on hook-up and dating apps. That increasing attention is being paid to the racialized aspects of our partner selections ...