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The Whiskey Rebellion, Political Crisis, and the Sociology of Elite Interpretation

From the early modern to the contemporary USA, part 2

May 10, 2017 • by Isaac Ariail Reed

Among the grievances that fueled the rebels we can include an early modern version of a bailout. Government issued bonds had been used to pay the soldiers in the Continental Army during the revolutionary war. During the economic depression of the 1780s, speculators had bought these up for pennies on ...

The Whiskey Rebellion, Political Crisis, and the Sociology of Elite Interpretation

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Global Climate and Trump

What does Trump Mean for Global Climate Change

May 9, 2017 • by Michael Flaherty

“I just think we have much bigger risks. I mean I think we have militarily tremendous risks. I think we’re in tremendous peril. I think our biggest form of climate change we should worry about is nuclear weapons. The biggest risk to the world, to me -- I know President ...

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Football, Slavery, and Song

On Not Standing for the National Anthem

May 8, 2017 • by Joseph Heathcott

On August 14, 2016 during a pre-season game, San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick remained seated while his teammates stood for the National Anthem. At first it was unclear why he stayed on the bench. But a few weeks later, Kaepernick made his reasons known to journalists, linking the anthem ...

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You Can’t Always Get What You Want, or In Defense of False Choices

Žižek on Macron and LePen

May 5, 2017 • by Laura Nelson

“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you’ll find you get what you need” -- Mick Jagger Blackmail is ugly. Political blackmail is more than ugly: it undermines the political as a distinct mode of human action, and transforms it into a manipulative battle of insult ...

You Can’t Always Get What You Want, or In Defense of False Choices

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Ordnance as Ordinance

The MOAB bomb and the Biblical Roots of Our Endless War

May 5, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

In this light, both the decision to name this weapon MOAB and the decision to deploy it in Afghanistan is tightly linked with what Judith Butler called a “new military convention” begun by Colin Powell when he described the deployment of “smart bombs” during the first Iraq War as “the ...

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Populism as Neoliberalism

On John Smith’s Imperialism in the 21st Century in the Trump Era

May 4, 2017 • by Anonymous

Are neoliberalism and Trump’s populism incompatible? In the scattered debates that have arisen in the wake of his presidential victory, these two somewhat vague terms are contrasted with one another in order to make sense of his rhetoric of protectionism for US manufacturers and labor, to the detriment of immigrant ...

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Trump is an Authoritarian

In his actions and his words — and words are actions

May 3, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

In a recent piece in the Guardian, Corey Robin argues that “liberals” exaggerate the danger posed by Donald Trump, and do so because they pay “almost exclusive attention to what Trump says rather than what he does.” He attributes to liberals -- “journalists such as Vox’s Ezra Klein and academics ...

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May Day 2017

Testimonies from Care-workers

May 2, 2017 • by International Women's Strike NYC

May Day 2017 is a day of struggle against the Trump administration and the conditions which gave rise to his presidency. Workers across the country -- waged and unwaged -- strike, march, rally, and boycott in order to demand justice and respect for all those who labor and who provide care. Here, ...

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The Resuscitation of Truth

A Pragmatic Defense of Political Integrity

May 1, 2017 • by Laura Nelson

Time magazine recently re-purposed a cover-graphic and feature article from 1966, changing the title-question from “Is God Dead?” to “Is Truth Dead?” The central figure in this feature was, as you might expect, the current president of the United States. Donald Trump’s fondness for the lie, whether big or small, has ...

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Three Philosophical Lives

Hubert L. Dreyfus, Benjamin R. Barber, Robert Pirsig

April 28, 2017 • by Laura Nelson

(1) Hubert L. Dreyfus, who passed away on Friday April 21, was a figure of quiet importance in the discipline of philosophy. He belonged to the philosophical cohort that includes Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, Jürgen Habermas, and Richard Bernstein, but unlike the aforementioned Dreyfus was not widely known outside ...

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The New School as a Sanctuary Campus

Taking a stance and making our campuses accessible, safe, and truly open

April 28, 2017 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso

Since the election of Donald Trump, like hundreds of universities across the country, The New School has been mobilized. Following the Executive Orders on Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements and Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States in January of 2017, faculty, students and staff ...

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A Utopia for Money

A visit to the secretive art warehouse at the Singapore airport

April 27, 2017 • by Max Haiven

I have visited money’s utopia: it is not only a utopia for those with money, but a utopia for money itself. Sequestered in the winding roads of an industrial park, next to the airport tarmac of one of Asia’s busiest airports, a mere block away from the garrison of the border ...