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Why We’re Not Re-living The Interwar Years

We’re back in the 19th century

January 20, 2017 • by Quentin Bruneau

In many accounts, the historical parallel between our time and the interwar period refers to both the economic conditions of the two periods, i.e. a major international economic crisis, and to a lesser extent, to the political situation, namely the rise of far right and far left parties. This analogy, like ...

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Who’s Afraid of Workplace Democracy?

Research indicates cooperatives manage resources just as efficiently

January 19, 2017 • by Katarina Spasic

What is so remarkable when it comes to Weil’s notion of oppression is that she insists that oppression is inherent to managerial practice. Her work offers an ethical basis for the critical analysis of management, science, and expertise. One of her famous quotes reads, “When someone exposes himself as a ...

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The Crisis of Dynamic Stabilization and the Sociology of Resonance

An Interview with Hartmut Rosa

January 18, 2017 • by Eli Zaretsky

Hartmut Rosa: Yeah, I actually started my academic career by working on Charles Taylor, the Canadian philosopher and I did that with Axel Honnett, who at that time was at the Free University in Berlin. And this is how I got socialized into the critical theory tradition. And after that ...

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Fighting Over and On the Streets of New York

A Review of the ‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’ Exhibition

January 17, 2017 • by Julia Foulkes

“Whose Streets” features the work of thirty-eight independent photojournalists who documented -- and participated in -- protests in New York from 1980-2000. The issues ranged from housing, abortion rights, housing, queer activism, AIDS, education and labor, police brutality, race relations, the war and environment -- there were a lot, and ...

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Fascism in America?

Recalling the Know-Nothings and Individual Responsibility

January 17, 2017 • by Justin Humphreys

A prevalent answer to these questions among leftist academics and commentators has been a qualified “yes.” Many view the rhetoric and proposed policies of the new administration as blatantly fascistic in character. I wish to argue that this is incorrect and that using fascism as the central critical concept in ...

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Before the War Ended

A short story by Kay Hoff

January 17, 2017 • by Richard Rottenburg

Kay Hoff is a German author born in 1924 in Neustadt/Holstein, a town in northern Germany by the Baltic Sea. In 1941, when he was seventeen, Kay and all fifteen of his classmates voluntarily applied to join the army just six months before they graduated from high school. Due to ...

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When Politics Invades the Personal

A New Mandate for Psychoanalysis in the Trump Era

January 16, 2017 • by Joan Golden-Alexis

James arrives at his session, bleary-eyed, having stayed up very late to hear the results of the 2016 presidential election. He doesn’t speak, but instead begins playing a recording of Judy Collins singing. As the song ends, he quietly repeats the refrain: The weight of the world, too heavy to lift ...

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Why Dr. Ben Carson Should Not Be Confirmed as HUD Secretary

An open letter to Senators Michael Crapo and Sherrod Brown

January 14, 2017 • by Rachel Bratt, Florence Wagman Roisman and N. D. B. Connolly

We, the undersigned, strongly oppose the appointment of Dr. Ben Carson as the next Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Apart from his personal views on a variety of political and social issues, we consider Dr. Carson completely unqualified to anticipate or promote appropriate solutions to ...

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The Philosophy and Psychoanalysis of the Image

A conversation

January 13, 2017 • by Chiara Bottici and Jamieson Webster

On the occasion of Totem & Taboo, an exhibition of new paintings by Daniel Horowitz at Tillou Fine Art (running through January 21), philosopher Chiara Bottici and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster discussed the role of the image in philosophy and psychoanalysis. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of salon-style interdisciplinary ...

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Interposition in the Age of Trump

Rethinking States’ Rights

January 12, 2017 • by Matthew Filner

In 1798, Congress passed the famous Alien and Sedition Acts. These four bills made citizenship more difficult for new immigrants, gave the President expansive deportation powers, and turned criticism of the federal government into a criminal act. (Sound familiar?) In response, James Madison wrote a series of resolutions ultimately adopted ...

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The Room Where It Happens

Jeff Sessions Testifies

January 11, 2017 • by Claire Potter

If any of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees are turned back, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is not going to be among them. Sessions, at the age of 70 still the "junior" Senator from Alabama, was one of three nominees to begin the confirmation process yesterday. While he faced skepticism, and even anger, ...

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Time for Resolution

This Year We Save Democracy

January 11, 2017 • by Jill Gentile

New Year’s resolutions are a curious ritual. Each year we promise to change, even as we can’t help but recall last year’s resolutions and measure how far we’ve fallen short. Human beings are by and large procrastinators. We typically postpone any significant change until it’s almost too late -- until ...