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Education

Uncovering the Musical Divide

The tale of two cultures at the Mannes School of Music and The New School

December 14, 2018 • by Sally Bick

When Julia Foulkes, a historian at The New School, asked me to write about the historical cultures that defined the Mannes School of Music and those of the New School, I couldn’t help but think about my own musical pedigree: once a performer, now music scholar. This disciplinary divide is ...

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The Dedication of the Safran Reading Room

Reflections on a legacy

December 13, 2018 • by Howard Steele

The follow post is Howard Steele's opening remarks for the dedication ceremony of the Safran Reading Room on December 5th, 2018. Click here to read Ali Shames-Dawson's comments on the dedication. Good evening, everyone, my name is Howard Steele. I am a professor here and the chair for the clinical psychology ...

The Dedication of the Safran Reading Room

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JFK’s Queer White House

What we can learn about a straight President by looking at the gay men in his orbit

December 13, 2018 • by Claire Potter

President John F. Kennedy has become infamous for his vivid, and some might say almost compulsive, heterosexual affairs. But straight men can have a gay side, and JFK’s life was filled with prominent gay men, friendships which open the door to other histories. At least one of these intimates, Kirk ...

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Remembering Jeremy

The Dedication of the Safran Reading Room at NSSR

December 12, 2018 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

Below are reflections on the dedication ceremony held last week in honor of Jeremy D. Safran and the The Safran Reading Room created in his memory. Click here to read the introductory comments of Howard Steele. One week ago, on Wednesday December 5th, the Safran Reading Room was dedicated in honor ...

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Hispanidad and Spain’s Black Legend

Prejudiced myths impact Spain much like they do in the U.S.

December 12, 2018 • by Anna Oakes

“Hispanidad is the most important landmark of humanity, in my opinion only comparable with Rome. It is probably the most brilliant era, not of Spain, but of Man, together with the Roman Empire.” -Pablo Casado It may be a small, dark comfort to know that the United States is not alone in ...

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What Shakespeare Can Tell Us About School Shootings

In the film O, a 1999 adaptation of Othello, toxic masculinity is at the root of violence

December 12, 2018 • by Iman Lavery

In 1998, five shootings took place on school campuses in the United States. So far in 2018, there have been more than sixty-five. Over the last few decades, the frequency of violence in schools has increased exponentially. As a society, we have struggled to understand the nature of such violence and ...

What Shakespeare Can Tell Us About School Shootings

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The Feminine Revolution of Electronic Music

After years of male domination and overt sexism, DJs and producers grow in number and international impact

December 11, 2018 • by Manu Garrido

In 2015, the German artist Tujamo released the song Booty Bounce , which became one of the hits of the summer. The only sentence of the theme is Let me see that booty bounce (Let me see how that ass moves). The video clip, which is on its way to 18 million views, is three minutes of girls ...

The Feminine Revolution of Electronic Music

Blue Monday

John Kelly Is a Present Danger to the Republic

With all due respect

December 10, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

The White House has finally announced that Chief of Staff John Kelly will be stepping down by the end of the year. Kelly has arguably been fairly feckless in his discharge of his White House duties. But he has nonetheless often been regarded by pundits as “an adult in the ...

John Kelly Is a Present Danger to the Republic

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Older Workers at Risk in Next Recession

November 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55

December 10, 2018 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported an unemployment rate of 2.9% for November, an increase of 0.1 percentage points from October. Older workers are benefiting from a historically low unemployment rate. Now is the time to prepare for older workers' higher risks in recessions. Older workers least prepared for retirement are most likely ...

Education

Making Family Child Care Work For 3K

New York City is wise to invest in early education

December 9, 2018 • by Kendra Hurley

Mayor Bill de Blasio campaigned for re-election in 2017 on a promise of instituting “3K-for-All” -- a logical extension of the popular citywide launch of universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) for 4-year-olds during his first term. At the time, neither he nor the voters may have envisioned parents dropping their 3-year-olds off ...

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“Bread in those days was like gold!”

A survivor’s account of the Siege of Leningrad

December 8, 2018 • by Mikael Kai Zakharov

The Blockade of Leningrad is a particularly dark period in modern history. Almost anyone who has family ties in the city will know someone directly affected by it. My great uncle was among those who survived the blockade – aged only six when it began. Hearing his account of events ...

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The Perils and Promise of Collective Memory

Reflections on Imagination and Forgetting

December 7, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

“We should remember with caution, even as we must proceed boldly.” This is the way I have already tried to succinctly summarize my approach to “gray memory” earlier this year. I know that memory holds great promise, as Milan Kundera once put it: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of ...