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Education

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 ...

Education

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 ...

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Trump – Show your Taxes

Washington D.C. Protest on April 15th

April 26, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Several thousand protesters gathered on the west lawn of the Capitol on April 15 to demand that President Trump release his tax returns. The DC rally was one of many such protests held around the country on the traditional day for filing income taxes. Organized by several progressive groups, the ...

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Venezuela Under Dictatorship

An urgent note regarding recent developments in Venezuela

April 25, 2017 • by Ricardo Isea

After several months of political apathy, Venezuela is experiencing a massive popular uprising since April 4th. Over the last three weeks, almost daily, a wave of mass anti-government protests has exploded in major cities of the country, reaching its zenith on April 19. Hundreds of thousands of people have poured ...

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Is Right-Wing Populism Really Surging?

A look back at the Dutch election

April 21, 2017 • by Lysan Boshuyzen

A question on the exit polls during the US presidential election was which “presidential quality” mattered most. Interestingly enough, it was not experience, nor good judgment that people deemed the most necessary quality for a president: it was their ability to “bring needed change” (39%). That was also the only quality ...

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On Theorizing Neoliberalism

The Problems and Politics of a Critique

April 20, 2017 • by Bryant William Sculos

In a recent piece for Public Seminar, Jeffery Goldfarb explores the problems of the term and concept of neoliberalism, specifically its inconsistent application by those on the left. He claims that neoliberalism is used to describe a wide range of policy positions from public-private ventures up to the complete deregulation of ...

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Putin May Have Bombed His Own Metro

It is not unthinkable. He’s done it before.

April 19, 2017 • by Jordan Luber

There was a vile terrorist attack in Russia on April 3rd, 2017. Some coward who believes his cause is greater than human life put a bomb on a metro car. It exploded while the car was in transit, passing between two of the busiest stations in St. Petersburg. A blast ...

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The Right to Lie

Lawrence Abu Hamdan

April 18, 2017 • by GIDEST

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a 2015-17 Vera List Center Fellow, is a visual artist and audio investigator with a background in DIY music. He was the Armory Show commissioned Artist of 2015 and has exhibited and performed at venues such as The New Museum, Van AbbeMuseum, The Shanghai Biennial (2014), The Whitechapel Gallery, MACBA, ...

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In Defense of Sanctuary

The negation of a movement

April 17, 2017 • by Abou Farman

As the lights went out on the administration’s anti-healthcare initiative, Jeff Sessions, like the ringmaster of a three-ring circus, made a sudden appearance out from the darkness to train the spotlight once more onto sanctuary cities and bark about their criminal inhabitants, otherwise known as immigrants. Sanctuary policies, he claimed, ...

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Fly the Angry Skies

Airline Travel and the Militarization of Everyday Spaces

April 14, 2017 • by Claire Potter

Yes, he was threatening me with detention and a strip search. What had I done? I hadn't lost my temper. Not yet, at any rate. I hadn't even sighed or rolled my eyes. I had, however, explained that I was late for my flight and needed to be searched and released ...

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Three Futures for the Democratic Party

The Party Beyond Hillary and Bernie

April 13, 2017 • by Macabe Keliher

The electoral defeat of the Democratic Party last November, coupled with a lackluster resistance to Trump and the Republican agenda, has exposed a political party long in decay. Having lost nearly one thousand seats in local and national elections over the past eight years, and then the presidency, the Democratic ...