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When White Houses Go Dark

Watergate and the Lessons of History

June 17, 2017 • by Claire Potter

Forty-five years ago today, all the President's men were nervously awaiting the fallout from a break-in at an office at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. where the Democratic National Committee had established its 1972 campaign headquarters. Naughty, naughty. The White House's shadow arm was a jolly crew nicknamed "the Plumbers." Among ...

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Our New Walls

The Rise of Separation Barriers in the Age of Globalization

June 16, 2017 • by Julia Sonnevend

Separation barriers might seem archaic in a “globalizing” world, but they are increasingly popular worldwide. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, at least forty countries have built new walls. There are more separation walls now than there were in the fateful year of 1989, the year that had symbolically ...

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The Captivity of Otto Warmbier

Outsiders, Insiders, and Mad Kings

June 15, 2017 • by Ann M. Little

I’ve followed Warmbier’s story as closely as I can -- as closely as any of us can at this remove from the DPRK’s closed society, one dominated by an autocratic regime that is itself ruled by the whims of a mad king. At the same time, I have thought about ...

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Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

How I Can’t Stop Worrying About the Bomb and the Threat to Democracy in America

June 14, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

So it’s Donald Trump’s birthday today. Too bad Marilyn Monroe isn’t around. Nothing less than her famous greeting to John F. Kennedy would satisfy his outsized ego. His needs are profoundly disturbing, as indicated by the spectacle of the first meeting of his full cabinet. I strongly recommend that you view this ...

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Radical Skin/Moderate Masks

Yassir Morsi

June 13, 2017 • by Public Seminar

Pre-book launch event with Australia-based race critical scholar, Yassir Morsi in discussion with Arun Kundnani, author of 'The Muslims are Coming.' Co-hosted by the Zolberg Institute for Migration Studies and the Department Sociology at The New School. The event also launched the Rowman and Littlefield International Book Series, Challenging Migration Studies (edited ...

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Mayoral Statements on Confederate Memorials

Misrepresentation and Misrecognition, yet again (Part Two)

June 12, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

In this second part of further reflections on misrepresentation and misrecognition building on posts from earlier this year, I explore this rhetorical practice with reference to the current debate concerning the removal of statues of and to “Confederate heroes.” These debates have centered on the removal of four statues in ...

Mayoral Statements on Confederate Memorials

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The Greatest Threat to Orderly Thought

Robert Drinan and Religious Progressives in Politics

June 11, 2017 • by Tim Lacy

When Robert Drinan, S.J. (a Jesuit), ran as a liberal anti-Vietnam War, anti-Nixon candidate for a U.S House seat (MA’s 3rd District) in 1970, he upset a 14-term incumbent, Philip J. Philbin, in the Democratic Primary. He eventually became the first Catholic priest to hold an elected office after winning ...

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On Adivasi Development and Resistance in India

Existential questions faced by the subaltern

June 9, 2017 • by Aabid Firdausi

Existential questions faced by the subaltern When accepting the 2004 City of Sydney Peace Prize, Arundhati Roy remarked, “there's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” This quote aptly captures the persecution and repression faced by people marginalized by society’s relentless ...

On Adivasi Development and Resistance in India

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Presidential Visits to Yad Vashem

Misrepresentation and Misrecognition, yet again (Part One)

June 8, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

You will by now have seen one report or another contrasting the responses of Presidents Obama (who visited as a senator and presidential candidate) and Trump to Yad Vashem, the Israeli national museum and memorial dedicated to the victims of the Nazi Genocide, the survivors of that crime, and the ...

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Homesteading the Lower East Side

A Review of Amy Starecheski, Ours to Lose

June 7, 2017 • by Julia Foulkes

Amy Starecheski, Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City (University of Chicago Press, 2016) The Lower East Side has long been an object of fascination for those who study New York. It has been a location for bohemia, from the early 20th century to the Beats and ...

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Trump as Ubu Roi

On the charismatic appeal of vulgarity

June 6, 2017 • by Isaac Ariail Reed

Many are the analogies for the current President of the United States. Such analogies always contain within them theoretical debates about the nature of Trump’s appeal, the prospects for his rule, and how the coterie around him will conduct themselves in relation to Trump, in relation to each other, and ...

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The Psychopathology of the US Elections

Why Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power is Relevant Today

June 5, 2017 • by Leonard Mazzone

When it was published in 1960, Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power did not achieve the acclaim enjoyed by his novel Die Blendung (1935), his dramas Die Hochzeit (1932), Die Komödie der Eitelkeit (1950) and Die Befriesteten (1964) and, later, the many volumes of aphorisms and the three volumes of his ...