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#PurpleReigns: A Tribute to Prince

October 21, 2016 • by Julia Ott, Simon Critchley, Deva Woodly, Ricky Tucker, Claire Potter and Alyson Palmer

On September 23rd, Pam Tillis, Director of Public Programs for the New School for Public Engagement organized a tribute to Prince inspired by the Black Lives Matter’s hashtag entitled, #PurpleReigns: A Tribute to Prince. Leading the crowd in celebration were musician Alyson Palmer from the band BETTY, guitarist Mishti Roy, dancer Darlene Arrington, Ricky Tucker, ...

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Sadism in Poland

The proposed abortion bill was an attack on women, nothing else

October 20, 2016 • by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

Since the beginning of Law and Justice Party (PiS) rule in Poland, the right-wing government has accustomed Poles to regulations that counter the principles of democracy (e.g. the Constitutional Tribunal) or human decency (nepotistic hires). This time, however, PiS has taken a step further, deciding to support a bill proposed ...

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The Promises and Pitfalls of Crucifying Trump

October 19, 2016 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

In his New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Freud (1933) states that “pathology, in making things larger and coarser, can draw our attention to normal conditions which would have otherwise escaped us.” Though Freud here was talking of the psyche of the neurotic, I think we can apply this insight to ...

The Promises and Pitfalls of Crucifying Trump

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The Promise and Perils of a Clinton Victory and a Trump Defeat

President Hillary Clinton + The Politics of Small Things = Progress?

October 18, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The second Clinton - Trump “debate” was a dismal affair, a low point in the history of the American Republic. Donald Trump demonstrated with great clarity why it is imperative that he not become the next president of the United States. He treated the event as a reality show, with ...

The Promise and Perils of a Clinton Victory and a Trump Defeat

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The Order is Rapidly Fadin’

Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize

October 17, 2016 • by Emily Edwards

The Internet has been ablaze with celebration and criticism as the news broke that musician Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan’s win against traditional novelists and poets is both surprising and significant, but the importance of the Nobel prize has little to do with Dylan ...

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#PSLiveDebate 2

October 17, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

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On Dylan Anxiety

October 16, 2016 • by Zachary Sunderman

Bob Dylan is the 2016 Nobel Laureate in Literature. Some people love it, some people hate it. That’s to be expected. But why do the people who hate it, hate it so much? There are all sorts of possible explanations, and certainly more than one of them has purchase. We can ...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton May Be The First Feminist President

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit

October 15, 2016 • by Lisa Aslanian

It has taken me a few days to figure out why Hillary Rodham Clinton makes me a little giddy. I have always enjoyed watching her run for office. She is the smart girl who does her homework. She aims to get the job by earning it. She is tireless and ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton May Be The First Feminist President

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Category Anxiety: Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize

October 15, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

It’s been a weird year (the weirdest I can remember at least), and Thursday morning’s announcement that Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature made it weirder still. But, overall, it is weird in a welcome way.

Pre-announcement speculation centered on the possibility that the prize might be awarded to an ...

Category Anxiety: Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize

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Bob Dylan: Nobel Laureate?

October 14, 2016 • by Vince Carducci

I can’t say that I am a huge Bob Dylan fan. I may have been born just a little too late to have been caught up in the folk craze, though I do remember singing “Blowin’ in the Wind” along with “This Land is Your Land” and “Where Have All ...

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Transparent, Wells Fargo, and Cable News

Past Present Episode 54

October 13, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia debate the place of Transparent in the history of LGBTQ representation on television, fraud at Wells Fargo, and the 20th anniversary of Fox News. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: The third season of the hit show Transparent recently ...