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Art & Design

The Writing on the Wall

Orozco, Benton, and Arnautoff

September 25, 2019 • by Jennifer Wilson

Student and activist groups have campaigned for the removal of the murals, arguing they were detrimental to the education and well-being of students of color, who had to confront these images as they walked the halls or ascended the staircase. On the other side of the debate, art historians and ...

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A Call For A Global Focus On Community Values

A market for values is what the world Needs to reconcile democracy and capitalism, community and the individual

September 24, 2019 • by Marco Senatore

The weakening of democracy and community Liberal democracy is in retreat in several countries: Brazil, India, Hungary, Poland. It is also going through an identity crisis in the United States and United Kingdom. In Italy in the last year there has been a sharp increase in divisiveness on issues such as ...

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Shane Gillis and Saturday Night Live, Saudi Arabia, and Telephone Calls

Past Present Episode 197

September 24, 2019 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Saturday Night Live hired comedian Shane Gillis and then promptly fired him when video of his racist remarks about Asian Americans and others surfaced. Niki referred to Ellen D. Wu’s book The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority. Natalia ...

Blue Monday

The Trump “Whistleblower” Situation Is Very Dangerous for Democracy and for the Democrats

Biden’s disingenuousness is no match for Trump

September 23, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Do the recent revelations by investigative journalists at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and most notably the Wall Street Journal represent an “inflection point,” exposing a level of malfeasance and criminality that can no longer be ignored? Perhaps. It is too early to tell. But the record of the past seems pretty ...

Exiles on 12th Street

Futures

Exiles on 12th Street, Episode Five

September 23, 2019 • by Claire Potter

The future can sometimes seem daunting and frightening, but it can also feel like an unwritten adventure. As children, we played in a world of infinite possibilities, in which imagination—not predestination—ruled the day. In the fifth episode of Exiles on 12th Street, we explore possibilities the future may hold. From ...

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Stormy Times in Argentina

A View from Buenos Aires

September 23, 2019 • by Margarita Gutman

The core of this article was written a week before the results of the primary elections on August 11, which massively rejected the national economic and social policies implemented by current President Mauricio Macri, as demonstrated by the 15 point spread between the victorious Alberto Fernandez and Macri. These primary ...

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I Want to Run for Office. Thank You, AOC.

A letter to Alexandira Ocasio-Cortez

September 22, 2019 • by Ayling Zulema Dominguez

Your Spanish is like mine; acquired in the streets, it sounds like it was put through a strainer, and I love it. You weren’t supposed to run for office. Mother from La Isla and dad from the South Bronx. Born in a place where zip code determines your destiny. Bearing a long, hyphenated ...

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Elizabeth Warren at Washington Square Park

Warren wows the crowd

September 21, 2019 • by Jo Freeman

Thousands came to cheer when she spoke in Washington Square Park Monday night. Washington Square Park is a difficult place to hold a large rally, with its big fountain in the middle and lots of closed off spaces for special activities. But the Arch on the northern boundary makes a great backdrop. At ...

Art & Design

The Art of Change Opera 0.1

An ongoing libretto

September 20, 2019 • by Chiara Bottici

The following is the opera’s libretto, conceived and developed by the philosopher and writer Chiara Bottici. In accordance with the spirit of the Centennial and of The New School’s legacy, it will be an ongoing and open libretto: we invite all readers to suggest changes, to propose quotations from their ...

Capitalism

The Return of “Capitalism”

And the limits of economics

September 20, 2019 • by William Milberg

As Democratic presidential hopefuls find themselves responding to the questions “are you a socialist?” and “are you a capitalist?,” it is useful to remember that for most of the post-War era, the word capitalism was taboo in economics, the discipline whose very role is to provide rigorous analysis of … ...

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More Precious Than Gold

How a Carbon-based Cryptocurrency Might Save Our Planet

September 19, 2019 • by Gustav Peebles and Ben Luzzatto

Today, we are existentially threatened by our own waste production: atmospheric carbon. But what if we took a cue both from nature and endless generations of farmers, and re-labeled our carbon waste as central, as fertile; as the font of all value in the system? For eons, farmers have known ...

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The Problem with “Neoliberalism”

Neoliberalism is polarizing the 2019 elections. Does it capture Argentina’s predicament?

September 19, 2019 • by Nicolás Saldías

I argue neoliberalism has become a shorthand whose usage does more harm than good. There are three (non-exhaustive) reasons why it is a problematic frame to understand Argentina’s predicament. First, neoliberalism is a concept that over-simplifies multi-causal processes into a narrative frame presented as a coherent whole. It creates an “us ...