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Love and Hope in the New Left

A Review of Making History, Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America

February 21, 2019 • by Maurice Isserman

In the summer of 1974 Dick Flacks, a sociologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, published an article entitled “Making History vs. Making Life: Dilemmas of an American Left” in the political quarterly,Working Papers for a New Society. Long defunct, the publication Working Papers was distinguished, among other things, for ...

Blue Monday

New Blood Brings New Energy to the Democratic Party

Defeating Trump Politically Part 2

February 20, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

“I really like the new crop of young people who were just elected to Congress. They now need to stop acting like young people. It’s time to do that.”--Aaron Sorkin, self-important screenwriter of television shows about politics “What . . . really distinguishes this generation . . . is its determination ...

Education

On the Origins of the University in Exile

An Excerpt from “A Light in Dark Times”

February 20, 2019 • by Judith Friedlander

The New School for Social Research opened in 1919 as an act of protest. Founded in the name of academic freedom, it quickly emerged as a pioneer in adult education -- providing what its first president, Alvin Johnson, liked to call “the continuing education of the educated.” By the mid-1920s, ...

On the Origins of the University in Exile

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How to Live One’s Values in All The “Little” Choices

A Review of Making History, Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America

February 20, 2019 • by Myra Marx Ferree

Living in interesting times is reputedly a curse, but Mickey and Dick Flacks tell a story of such times that makes them positively charming. The title suggests a voyage of discovery, both of each other and of national experiences and values, but the book itself has less to say about ...

How to Live One’s Values in All The “Little” Choices

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Cardi B, Jeff Bezos, and Lyndon LaRouche

Past Present Episode 167

February 19, 2019 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia discuss the celebrity of Cardi B, Jeff Bezos’ “below-the-belt selfie,” and the death of Lyndon LaRouche. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Cardi B became the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Best Hip-Hop Album, and she’s been a ...

Cardi B, Jeff Bezos, and Lyndon LaRouche

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Our Sixties: Blowin’ in the Wind

Thinking Morally, Acting Strategically

February 19, 2019 • by Richard Flacks and Miriam Flacks

Making History/Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America is a chronicle of the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard (Dick) and Miriam (Mickey) Flacks, two of the founders of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). As active members of the Civil Rights movement ...

Blue Monday

Defeating Trumpism Politically, Part 1

Trump’s ‘national emergency’ over a border wall

February 18, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

I started writing my Blue Monday column a little over a year ago. I’ve been so gratified by the many regular readers the column has attracted, and the comments, and criticisms, the column has elicited. The column began as an effort to weave together my passions for politics and music. Over ...

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What to Expect When You Are Expecting Exploitation

An excerpt from ‘Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism’

February 18, 2019 • by Kristen R. Ghodsee

In a witty, irreverent op-ed piece that went viral, Kristen Ghodsee argued that women had better sex under socialism. The response was tremendous -- clearly, she articulated something many women had sensed for years: the problem is with capitalism, not with us. Ghodsee, an acclaimed ethnographer and professor of Russian and ...

What to Expect When You Are Expecting Exploitation

Education

Can Screened Schools Be Part Of A Diverse School System?

Why racial and income integration in the public schools matters

February 17, 2019 • by Clara Hemphill and Nicole Mader

The Mayor’s School Diversity Advisory Group this week released a report making a compelling case for why racial and income integration in the public schools matters. Now the challenge is coming up with realistic plans to make it happen -- and at the Center for New York City Affairs we ...

Can Screened Schools Be Part Of A Diverse School System?

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Behrouz Boochani and the Biopolitics of the Camp

The New Primo Levi?

February 16, 2019 • by Dimitris Vardoulakis

Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains, a literary sensation upon its publication in Australia in August 2018, and soon to be released in the United States, deserves a place alongside classics of the prison writing genre. [1] At the same time, it contains important lessons for everyone thinking about power in the ...

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Immigrants Demand Permanent Residency

Hundreds march in Washington DC on February 12th

February 15, 2019 • by Jo Freeman

About 500 people came to Washington DC from different states to march from the White House to the Capital demanding that they be allowed to stay in the United States. February 12 was a cold and rainy day. Most of them came here under Temporary Protected Status from 13 different countries. President ...

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Socialism and the Future of Gender Justice: Part 2

A Dialogue about Feminism in the Marketplace of Ideas

February 15, 2019 • by Kristen R. Ghodsee and Maria Bucur

On August 12, 2017, Kristen Ghodsee published an op-ed in the New York Times, titled “Why Women Had Better Sex under Socialism.” The piece was due to appear in print a few days later, but the editors published the online version on that date. Coincidentally, the late night of August 11th and the morning of August ...