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When SPURA and Visual Urbanism Meet

An interview with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

January 29, 2019 • by Julia Foulkes and Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

Contested City: Art and Public History as Mediation at New York’s Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, a new book by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, charts the long, dispiriting, and complicated history of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) on the Lower East Side of New York. Over five years, Bendiner-Viani walked ...

Blue Monday

To Hell With Maduro and With Trump

Thoughts on Socialism, Venezuela, and Freedom

January 28, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

The Venezuelan system has been in crisis for some time. This crisis, like all crises, is no doubt overdetermined. It has global, regional, and domestic dimensions. And its primary victims are the ordinary people of Venezuela. If you have any doubts, I recommend a look at Amnesty International’s 2018 report, ...

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How to Mark a Centennial

Telling the Story of the New School at 100

January 28, 2019 • by Mark Larrimore

“In 1896, a minor event occurred in New York’s art world that would, in time, transform American art education.” So began the sample script sent to 60 Minutes by the consultant hired to help make the upcoming centennial an event of national significance. CBS didn’t bite, and the proposed segment never ...

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How Orbán Manipulates Markets to Suppress Hungary’s Opposition

An interview with Kim Lane Scheppele and Daniel Hegedűs

January 27, 2019 • by Daniel Hegedűs, Kim Lane Scheppele and Krisztian Simon

The Hungarian regime has a wide range of tools to repress its people and it deploys them cleverly to avoid drawing too much criticism at home and abroad. The Green European Journal spoke with Professor Kim Lane Scheppele of Princeton University and political scientist Daniel Hegedűs about Hungary’s autocratic turn ...

How Orbán Manipulates Markets to Suppress Hungary’s Opposition

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My So-Called Life

Angela Chase, Body Image, and Teen Angst

January 26, 2019 • by Erika Jackson

In August 1994, ABC aired the pilot episode of My So-Called Life, and for the first time I felt that a television show spoke directly to me. I was fifteen, self-conscious, and searching for identity in a rural suburb of Lansing, Michigan. Shows such as Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place obsessed over affluence, sexuality, ...

Education

All of a Sudden

Reflections from the classroom of Sekou Sundiata

January 25, 2019 • by Brian Lewis

I arrived to class on Monday, November 27th, 2006 anxious and ready to be frustrated once again. I had ambivalent feelings about the course. Of all my courses at Eugene Lang College, this “America Project” class was the most culturally diverse. Where I was usually the lone black male student, ...

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Sex, Race and Religion Flood the Streets of Washington, DC

Hundreds of protestors coincide over the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend

January 24, 2019 • by Jo Freeman

Multiple marches filled the streets of Washington, D.C. over the cold, winter weekend celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Sex, race and religion were major themes. The first was the Indigenous People’s March, which met at the Dept. of Interior at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, January 18. After a greeting with prayers ...

Sex, Race and Religion Flood the Streets of Washington, DC

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From Tax Laws to Military Benefits

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Early Battles Against Sex Discrimination

January 23, 2019 • by Tanya L. Roth

In late December, Focus Features released On the Basis of Sex, a biopic about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Starring Felicity Jones, On the Basis of Sex highlights Ginsburg’s journey through law school, her teaching career, and her family relationships, particularly with her husband, Martin, and her daughter, Jane. The film shows ...

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‘First thing we do, we kill all the lawyers.’

How Trump’s immigration policies have been (largely) stopped in the courts. A conversation with law professor Peter Margulies.

January 23, 2019 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Lawyers -- outraged by the Trump Administration's harsh policies against immigrants -- have brought scores of cases challenging the President's actions. They have been remarkably successful in persuading judges to invalidate or put on hold many of the Administration's new policies. Law professor Peter Margulies tells us why the lawyers ...

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Gillette’s New Ad, Rep. Steve King, and Cursive’s Decline

Past Present Episode 163

January 22, 2019 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Gillette released a new ad taking aim at “toxic masculinity.” Natalia recommended historian Gail Bederman’s book Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Race and Gender in the United States, 1880-1917 and a Twitter thread she compiled of relevant historical images. Neil referred to his HuffPost piece on the campaign’s ...

Gillette’s New Ad, Rep. Steve King, and Cursive’s Decline

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A Murder in Gdańsk

The assassination of Mayor Paweł Adamowicz

January 22, 2019 • by Sławomir Sierakowski

The assassination of Gdańsk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz at a fundraising event for Poland's most beloved charity culminates years of fear-mongering about the country's opposition and judiciary by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. And now the PiS has chosen the wrong scapegoat for Adamowicz's murder. The murder of Gdańsk Mayor ...

Blue Monday

Thoughts on Martin Luther King, Jr., Birmingham, and Fractious Unity

Lessons from the civil rights movement for today’s political debates

January 21, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

“I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues.” - Duke Ellington Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a classic of American political thought and of American literature more generally. I’ve taught it countless times in my almost four decades of teaching political ...