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Full Frontal Feminism

Why Billie Jean King Made History in the Battle of the Sexes

October 9, 2017 • by Susan Ware

If only the 2016 election had turned out so well. “The Battle of the Sexes” puts its politics -- both feminist and sexual -- front and center, which is rather remarkable for a mainstream Hollywood offering. King takes on the male tennis establishment, personified by unctuous tennis promoter and former champion ...

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A Table for One: A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time

An extract from Kinneret Lahad’s recently published book

October 9, 2017 • by Kinneret Lahad

From Chapter 4, ‘Facing the horror: becoming an “old maid”’ Age and Singlehood In her analysis of single women in popular culture, Anthea Taylor (2012) proposes that the study of single women opens a window on how heteronormative and patriarchal frameworks operate in new and sophisticated ways. Inspired by Taylor’s study, I ...

A Table for One: A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time

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The Equifax Hack

Past and Present: Bonus Episode 4

October 8, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the Equifax hack.

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Reading Adorno on Fascism in the Age of Trump

A New School roundtable

October 7, 2017 • by Lucas Ballestín

In an era marked by the rise of a paradoxically international right-wing populism, and in the midst of ethno-nationalist tumult in the United States, this roundtable reflects on the legacy and contemporary utility of “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda.” Might Freud and other psychoanalytic theorists still have something ...

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Confronting Fundamental Problems of the Human Condition and Pressing Problems of the Day… by any means necessary

Four years of Public Seminar

October 6, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Now many fine colleagues have joined the project, as we had hoped would happen. Their creative imagination, experience, scholarship and commitment have made it what it is today and what it promises to be tomorrow. Claire Potter and I oversee the operations in adjoining offices, across from The New School ...

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GOP Tax Plan Fails to Reform Regressive Retirement Tax Breaks

September Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55

October 6, 2017 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

It's no surprise that older workers have little retirement savings ($12,000 on average). This is despite the $180 billion in tax breaks a year to encourage people to save for retirement. That's because these tax breaks are highly regressive, giving 66% of the benefits to those in the top 20% of the income ...

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Memory and Kent State

The Past is Always Present on May 4

October 6, 2017 • by Carol Wilder

I fell into the field of communications by default because I took a debate class at Miami from a professor who turned out to be chair of the department. I was an English major looking for an easy minor. No one could have been more surprised than I that the ...

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Adorno’s Uncanny Analysis of Trump’s Authoritarian Personality

Part 2

October 5, 2017 • by Jay M. Bernstein

During the election, Trump bragged that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” (January 23, 2016). In claiming this, Trump understood something about the social-psychological bond between his core supporters and himself that his critics have noted but largely ...

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Freudian Theory and The Pattern of Fascist Propaganda

Part 3

October 5, 2017 • by Jamieson Webster

Adorno is quick to pick up what I think of as the central theme for my remarks and touches on a great deal of what I have worked on in Freud and Lacan, namely on the question of love and family. Adorno says that Freud’s article is prophetic probably because ...

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March for Racial Justice and March for Black Women

Sept. 30, 2017 DC

October 4, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Black Women First! Black Women First! Shouted several thousand people as they marched up Pennsylvania Ave. from the Capitol on September 30. They were leading two marches, which started at two different points on Capital Hill before joining to march to the Department of Justice on 10th St. There they planned to turn south to go to ...

March for Racial Justice and March for Black Women

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What Is The Purpose of Incarceration?

Introducing Year Two of an NEH Enduring Questions Course

October 4, 2017 • by Claire Potter

The question I chose was: "What is the purpose of incarceration?" The course is now in its second year, and this fall I am teaching it online. This is a very different experience from the onsite classroom (something I will write about in subsequent posts), but as part of the ...

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GIDEST: Wetness Everywhere

Water, fluidity, and scarcity

October 3, 2017 • by GIDEST

GIDEST is a Mellon-funded research institute based at The New School that incubates transdisciplinary research at the intersection of social theory, art, and design. As well as our faculty, artist-in-residence, and doctoral fellows’ programs, we run a series of biweekly public seminars that feature both prominent and emerging scholars and practitioners. ...