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Vera Zolberg

November 19, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

On Tuesday, November 15, 2016, my dear friend and colleague, Vera Zolberg, died. Her vast network of relatives, friends, colleagues and students are mourning a truly wonderful person. As a sociologist, she was a beloved teacher, mentor, author, scholar, colleague and friend, in the deep meaning of that underappreciated word. ...

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The Day After in Therapy

Post-Trump Election Win

November 18, 2016 • by Eyal Rozmarin

They say there are two Americas, but in my office there has been these past few days only one: frightened, demoralized, disoriented -- but also defiant, even aroused. My first patient of the day after the elections asked if we could postpone so he could watch Hilary Clinton concede on ...

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Authoritarianism and Civilization

Du Bois, Davis, and Trump

November 17, 2016 • by Neil Roberts

In 1890 the young W.E.B. Du Bois delivered the Harvard University Commencement address “Jefferson Davis as a Representative of Civilization.” Du Bois focused on a central figure of nineteenth-century America as he prophesied the meanings of freedom, democracy, and what American life -- or more accurately, civilization -- would look ...

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A Thanksgiving Letter to My Students

November 17, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

A happy thanksgiving, everyone! I know thanksgiving can be a difficult time for some students. Maybe you’re not going home or don’t feel like you have a ‘home’ to return to. In which case I really recommend pulling together your own community and celebrating any way you can. A chicken ...

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Marx’s Radical Development

Following Marx’s Train of Thought

November 16, 2016 • by Aaron Jaffe

There have been a few recent calls for a return to Marx, or openness to the thought that he “got it right.” To be sure, Marx got a lot -- a lot -- right, but simply peering into his writing desk -- as if setting things right for all time ...

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Proclaim The New School a Sanctuary Campus for Undocumented Students

An Open Letter to President Van Zandt and Provost Marshall

November 15, 2016 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso, Miriam Ticktin and Jonathan Bach

The result of the U.S. election cannot be understood in isolation from the global context of migration and refugee flows. Fear and ignorance about what causes people to leave their communities, and about the effects this has in the societies they join are at the core of xenophobic reactions and ...

Proclaim The New School a Sanctuary Campus for Undocumented Students

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Why The Free Market Is No Longer Free

Rent Control in the Bay Area

November 15, 2016 • by John Gilderbloom

The San Francisco Bay Area is in a state of emergency where teachers, janitors, and engineers are living in RVs or commuting hours to get to their jobs. Unchecked rent increases and unjust evictions are putting people into the streets. California has 115,000 homeless residents at last count, and the ...

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Post-Election Ghosts

November 15, 2016 • by Jeremy Safran

I want to be able to say something about the aftermath of the election, as a psychologist, as a psychoanalyst; as a Canadian expat since 1990, who only decided to become an American citizen after George W. Bush was first elected. But most importantly as a human being. But it’s ...

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Exile as Haven

On The New School Dorm Room Doors Vandalized with Swastikas

November 14, 2016 • by Julia Foulkes

Those of us at The New School received news on Saturday that dorm room doors had been vandalized with swastikas. The president has acted swiftly, calling it a hate crime and enacting a zero tolerance policy for such actions. Since this may be an act of students -- entry to ...

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Why Did Trump Win?

A Proposal for Modesty

November 12, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Why did Trump win? I begin with a question. Because it is a question being asked by so many people, ordinary citizens (and “undocumented” resident non-citizens) and intellectuals, writers, and academics. And because it is and will long remain a question, one with no simple answer. Election day was only a ...

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America the Troubled

Notes on the Political Landscape of a Divided Nation

November 12, 2016 • by Zachary Sunderman

I. In 2008, I stepped outside upon hearing the news that Barack Obama had been elected President of the United States. I needed a moment to be able to look at the sky, to see, enveloping me, a New America. We had turned our backs decisively on the abuses of the ...

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What to Do After the Election?

Moving Forward Under a Trump Presidency

November 11, 2016 • by Chris Crews

The weather in New York on the morning of November 9th was gloomy, just like the political mood. Despite numerous reassurances to the contrary, many people’s worst nightmare had just come true. Donald Trump would soon be President. It was as if the entire world had somehow come unraveled overnight. ...