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French Feminism at the Barricade

An Excerpt from “Daughters of 1968”

March 8, 2019 • by Lisa Greenwald

Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique of society and were ...

Interviews

Heaven and Hell in the Living Room: An Interview With Helen Schulman

The New School creative writing professor talks about her latest novel, Come with Me

March 8, 2019 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham and Helen Schulman

At the center of the story is Amy -- partner of Dan, parent of the teenage Jack and twins Miles and Theo, and, most recently, employee of Donny, her college roommate’s nineteen-year-old geek-savant son. Donny has hired Amy as PR rep and guinea pig for his new project, Furrier.com, a ...

Heaven and Hell in the Living Room: An Interview With Helen Schulman

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Minding Race and Class in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Identity in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

March 7, 2019 • by Daniel Gaztambide

This essay was originally published on March 7 2019. Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided idea that psychoanalysis is an expensive luxury only for the wealthy. As opposed to most Latin American countries, where ...

Minding Race and Class in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

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What We Must Learn from the History of French Feminism

An interview with Lisa Greenwald

March 7, 2019 • by Lisa Greenwald and Josh Maserow

Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement , by Lisa Greenwald, is the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique ...

What We Must Learn from the History of French Feminism

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Treating Borderline Personality Disorder in El Barrio

An Interview with Daniel Gaztambide

March 6, 2019 • by Daniel Gaztambide and Josh Maserow

Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious demonstrates that psychoanalytic principles can be applied successfully in disenfranchised Latino populations, refuting the misguided idea that psychoanalysis is an expensive luxury only for the wealthy. As opposed to most Latin American countries, where psychoanalysis is seen as a practice tied to ...

Treating Borderline Personality Disorder in El Barrio

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DNC Winter Meeting

Democratic National Committee held their winter meeting in Washington DC February 14-16

March 6, 2019 • by Jo Freeman

Members of the Democratic National Committee held their winter meeting in Washington DC February 14-16. The DNC has 447 members, including the Chairs and Vice Chairs of the 50 states plus 7 other entities. Most DNC members are elected from their states based on population. Members must be evenly divided ...

Blue Monday

In Defense of Ilhan Omar, Again

Did the House pass such a full-throated Resolution about anti-Semitism after Charlottesville, or after the recent Pittsburgh synagogue massacre?

March 5, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Ilhan Omar is again at the center of controversy, this time for remarks she made last week at a panel discussion at Busboys and Poets, a Washington, D.C. bookstore and restaurant. Omar’s “offending” comment was a reference to “the political influence in this country that says that it’s ok for ...

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Jussie Smollett, Christopher Hasson, and Debunking Psychics

Past Present Episode 169

March 5, 2019 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki discuss the scandal over Jussie Smollett’s alleged attack, Christopher Hasson’s terrorist plot, and how the internet is helping debunk mediums and psychics. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Actor Jussie Smollett is at the center of the nation’s latest high-profile racial ...

Jussie Smollett, Christopher Hasson, and Debunking Psychics

Blue Monday

Socialism and American Politics

A Brief Recollection (2009)

March 4, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Note: I recently found the piece below on an old hard drive. It was written on March 2, 2009, exactly ten years ago this weekend. It was written for the brand-new blog that Dissent Magazine was then starting. It was never published. I’m publishing it now for three reasons: (1) ...

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First as Tragedy…?

The Labour Party’s sense of itself and its relationship to its own past has fractured and splintered

March 4, 2019 • by Emily Robinson

The defections of eight Labour MPs and three Conservatives (numbers accurate at the time of writing!) from their parties to an as yet undefined ‘Independent Group’ has inevitably drawn comparison with the foundation of the SDP in 1981. The backdrop of divisions over Europe, intra-party democracy and ideological polarization seemed very familiar. ...

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A Homage to the Victims of Germany’s Neo-Nazis

Author Esther Dischereit laments the deaths of Turkish immigrants murdered by a German terrorist cell

March 3, 2019 • by Emilia Otte

Between 2000 and 2007, a Neo-Nazi terrorist cell murdered ten people across Germany. Even though eight of the victims were Turkish immigrants, the state didn’t initially consider the deaths to be racially motivated. It wasn’t until 2011, when two of the members staged a failed bank robbery, that the police forces connected the ...

From the Editors

Heaven and Hell in the Living Room: An Interview With Helen Schulman

The New School creative writing professor talks about her latest novel, Come with Me

Minding Race and Class in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Identity in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

Treating Borderline Personality Disorder in El Barrio

An Interview with Daniel Gaztambide

DNC Winter Meeting

Democratic National Committee held their winter meeting in Washington DC February 14-16

In Defense of Ilhan Omar, Again

Did the House pass such a full-throated Resolution about anti-Semitism after Charlottesville, or after the recent Pittsburgh synagogue massacre?

Jussie Smollett, Christopher Hasson, and Debunking Psychics

Past Present Episode 169

Socialism and American Politics

A Brief Recollection (2009)

A Homage to the Victims of Germany’s Neo-Nazis

Author Esther Dischereit laments the deaths of Turkish immigrants murdered by a German terrorist cell

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An Excerpt from “Daughters of 1968”

The New School creative writing professor talks about her latest novel, Come with Me

Identity in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

An interview with Lisa Greenwald

An Interview with Daniel Gaztambide

Democratic National Committee held their winter meeting in Washington DC February 14-16

Did the House pass such a full-throated Resolution about anti-Semitism after Charlottesville, or after the recent Pittsburgh synagogue massacre?

Past Present Episode 169

A Brief Recollection (2009)

The Labour Party’s sense of itself and its relationship to its own past has fractured and splintered

Author Esther Dischereit laments the deaths of Turkish immigrants murdered by a German terrorist cell

We must accept the idea that there is nothing inherently bad about structure itself — only its excess use

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