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#MeToo, Trump, Weinstein, and the Problem of Individual Responsibility

Society is Guilty

October 30, 2017 • by Bryant William Sculos

More recently, actress Alyssa Milano tweeted that if all the women who have faced unwanted advances or assaults at the hands of the men in their lives tweeted or posted “#MeToo” on social media, maybe men would realize the ubiquity of this heinous problem that women face on a daily ...

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Law and Sexuality

A course and syllabus from Eugene Lang College

October 29, 2017 • by Mayra Cotta

Course Outline August 28 // Introductory Class Presentation of the syllabus and course outline August 30 // Class 01 : History of Law and Sexuality We “Other Victorians”, Michel Foucault, in The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, pp. 3-13 Extra Material: Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism, Kristen R. Ghodsee, in NYT, 8/22/2017 Confrontation: Paris, 1968, Documentary by Seymour ...

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Judgment and Decision Making

Syllabus for GPSY 6421

October 28, 2017 • by Shai Davidai

#1 01/26 Introduction · How We Know What Isn’t So – Chapters 1-2 · Thinking Fast and Slow – Chapter 1-3 #2 02/02 Heuristics and biases · Thinking Fast and Slow - Chapters 10-15 · Gilovich, T., & Savitsky, K. (1996). Like goes with like: The role of representativeness in erroneous and pseudoscientific beliefs. Skeptical Inquirer, 20, 34-40 · Deri, S., ...

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Jeffrey C. Isaac, John McCain and Me

Thinking about a Democratic Antifa

October 27, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Isaac documents the danger that is White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. General Kelley’s disciplined authoritarianism may be more “adult” than that of his boss. Yet, as Isaac observes, it is enabling and not controlling the threat Trump presents to American democracy. Analyzing the interactive context of Trump’s telephone conversation with ...

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No Muslim Ban Marches in D.C.

October 18th 2017

October 27, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Two thousand people rallied and marched from Lafayette Park to the Trump Hotel on October 18. Organized by immigrant and civil rights groups, it was the culmination of a couple weeks of activities to demand that there never be any ban in Muslims entering the U.S. The day before a federal judge in ...

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Mourning Poland’s Burning Man

Polish man sets himself on fire after distributing letter condemning PiS Party

October 26, 2017 • by Sławomir Sierakowski

The text of the letter is eminently rational. It carefully enumerates and decries actions taken by Poland’s government that, according to Polish and international courts alike, amount to an attack on the rule of law and liberal democracy. The letter accuses the government, controlled by the Law and Justice (PiS) party, ...

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The Case for Curiosity in the Fight Against Anti-Blackness

Why We Need a Beginner’s Mind

October 26, 2017 • by Shanelle Matthews

In part, the dearth of curiosity about Black people is a direct result of the ways in which anti-Blackness and white supremacy obscure Black people’s inherent value and worth. In the face of this reality, we have to find a way to build and broaden people’s curiosity about Blackness anyway. ...

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The Virality of Patriotic Antiracism

Combat Veterans and Geopolitical Racism

October 25, 2017 • by Amir Sadeghi

Today, however, the struggle to destabilize the institutional fabric of disenfranchisement, imprisonment, and wealth inequality risks being buried by viral images of combat veterans “taking a knee,” or the children of service members killed in combat signaling their support for the “cause.” Generally speaking, it has become patriotic to stand ...

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Memory, Fidelity, Appropriation

A Response to Jonathan Bach’s What Remains

October 24, 2017 • by Benjamin Nienass

And yet, the fact that all major parties refused to view the AfD as a legitimate contender -- let alone a potential coalition partner -- indicates that German public memory still somehow “works.” However, the attempts to make sense of the election through the prism of memory serve as a ...

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Postcolonial Investigations and the Role of Necessary Discontinuity

A Review of Iain Chambers’ Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorized Modernities

October 24, 2017 • by Dora Suarez

In Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorized Modernities, Iain Chambers is preoccupied with the critical foreclosure that impedes our perception of the ways contemporary migration, as well as “the racism that precedes and accompanies it,” is not abnormal or exceptional.[1] In face of the waves of violence that convulse the landscape of the ...