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An Open Letter to the Ambassador Michael Fitzpatrick, the Interim Permanent Representative to the OAS

May 29, 2016 • by James Green

I was extremely disappointed to read today that you have unequivocally argued that impeachment process currently taking place in Brazil is democratic and legitimate. While acknowledging the dangers of comparing historical events from different time periods, the U.S. government is running the risk of repeating a tragic mistake it make ...

An Open Letter to the Ambassador Michael Fitzpatrick, the Interim Permanent Representative to the OAS

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No Border Police, No Border Problems

May 26, 2016 • by Chiara Bottici

Most of the debate about the European refugee crisis revolves around whether the responsibility of handling them belongs to European institutions or to individual nation states, and, if the latter, which among them: the first country of entry (as the Dublin regulations established) or some other country. In this brief ...

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I Want You To Know You Are Powerful: Commencement Address to Eugene Lang College

A Commencement Address to the Graduates of Eugene Lang College

May 25, 2016 • by Deva Woodly

It is an incredible honor to be here with you today and to be entrusted with the task of speaking to you in this moment. You are here with your friends and family to celebrate what is, so far, the culmination of the journey you have undertaken to educate yourselves ...

I Want You To Know You Are Powerful: Commencement Address to Eugene Lang College

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NSSR Graduation Speech 2016

May 24, 2016 • by William Milberg

These remarks were given at The New School for Social Research's graduation ceremony on May 19th 2016. Good evening, and welcome to the commencement ceremony of the New School for Social Research. I am Will Milberg, Dean of the New School for Social Research, and I am honored to represent this ...

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We Refugees

May 23, 2016 • by Daniel Loick

In 1943 Hannah Arendt published a short essay in the Jewish periodical "The Menorah Journal" entitled We Refugees. She described in it a widespread refusal among Jews who had escaped the Nazis to call themselves “refugees." Having lost everything -- their occupation, their language, their family -- they ...

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Psychoanalysis Needs a Sex Change

May 20, 2016 • by Patricia Gherovici

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. "Six years ago, when I published Please Select Your Gender, a book inspired by my clinical practice, I had not foreseen a wave that has swept away everything else in pop culture’s imagination. It also engulfed psychiatric and psychoanalytic ...

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Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities

May 18, 2016 • by Vince Carducci

According to the 2014 United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report, some two-thirds of the world's population is expected to reside in cities by 2050, more than double the percentage of urban dwellers that existed across the globe in 1950. To manage this growth, policymakers have embraced the notion that cities need ...

Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities

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A Radical New Approach to the Field of Economics

May 16, 2016 • by Ebba Boye

Anwar Shaikh has been teaching economics at The New School for 42 years. One of the world’s leading heterodox economists, he argues that the neoclassical models taught at most universities are bad tools for analyzing capitalism. He hopes that his recent book, Capitalism: Competition, Conflict and Crisis, can be ...

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The Sublime Language of My Century

May 14, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

One thing that the left and right now seem to agree on is that the society in which we live is called capitalism. And strangely enough, both now seem to agree that it is eternal. Even the left seems to think there is an eternal essence to capitalism, and only ...
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Psychoanalysis, Democracy, Desire

May 13, 2016 • by Jill Gentile

Anyone passingly familiar with the history of psychoanalysis knows that the field has occupied an embattled, marginalized, often indeterminate identity, and that its survival has often seemed precarious. Yet it is from this perch on the margins of culture and community that psychoanalysis speaks. By channeling a vortex of unconscious ...
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The Death Stops Here: The Death and Resurrection of Daniel Berrigan

May 12, 2016 • by Jeremy Varon

Fidgety and a little bored in the crammed pews of the Church of St. Francis Xavier, my eight-year-old son waited with us for the service to begin. For distraction and readiness, he etched on his program, with his parents’ help: “Today we reflect on the life of Daniel Berrigan. He ...
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Chaos, Order & Everything In Between, Diane Vaughan

May 11, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

Global events such as the Syrian refugee crisis, the growing challenges to austerity and for a living wage, the protean nature of social media as a news source, and many other situations present us with scenes of chaos, order, and the transitions in between. Such phenomena can result in varying ...
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