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The Tale of the Missing Man

An excerpt from Manzoor Ahtesham’s milestone in Indo-Muslim literature, recently translated from the Hindi by Jason Grunebaum and Ulrike Stark

August 31, 2018 • by Manzoor Ahtesham, Jason Grunebaum and Ulrike Stark

In the following, you can read an excerpt from the novel, in which Zamir Ahmad Khan realizes that studying at Aligarh Muslim University is not for him, followed by an interview with Manzoor Ahtesham, Jason Gronebaum and Ulrike Stark. A Mistake The year spent in Aligarh was like Chinese water torture, with ...

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Sexual Assault and the Other

On the Contemporary Politicization of Sexual Violence

August 30, 2018 • by Maria Bucur

Though it has been receiving a lot of attention in the media since the #MeToo movement started, sexual violence remains a poorly understood phenomenon. But the statistics on this crime of national proportions are getting better, because the climate of accountability and protection for victims has actually improved over the ...

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A12 Episode 6

The Aftermath

August 30, 2018 • by Nicole Hemmer

A12 explores the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville last year, the history behind the conflict, and how the city and its people have dealt with the aftermath. In this episode, Niki investigates "How Charlottesville has dealt with the trauma of August 11 and 12".

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Newschool.coop? Envisioning a Cooperative University

A cooperative model for The New School is a tangible alternative and a means to create a new, broad-based culture of ownership and democracy.

August 30, 2018 • by Michael McHugh

Like any student who believes that ideas have the power to transform our world, I came to The New School to investigate big, interconnected concepts: intersubjectivity and freedom, community and capitalism, violence and peace. When I accepted a full time job as an Executive Assistant at the University only a ...

Newschool.coop? Envisioning a Cooperative University

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Don’t Run Against Trump

As the general election looms, what is the best way for Democrats to win?

August 29, 2018 • by Claire Potter

When Democrats go to sleep at night, they dream of sticking it to Donald Trump in November. But that's not how you win elections -- or at least, not how you should win elections. While the media outrage machine often feeds the idea of impeachment as the ultimate endgame, there ...

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A12 Episode 5

Who Watches the Watchers?

August 29, 2018 • by Nicole Hemmer

In this episode, Niki investigates "Why law enforcement and the legal system failed to prevent the violence on August 11 and 12".

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Monuments to Men

An Interview and Epilogue to Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

August 29, 2018 • by Martha S. Jones

Martha S. Jones (MSJ): My first inspiration was the years I spent as a public interest lawyer. I represented poor people of color in lower Manhattan’s trial courts and rarely did those cases reach high courts or turn on constitutional questions. Still, I knew that my clients were fighting for fundamental ...

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The Özil Affair and the Limits of Progressive Nationalism

Why liberal nationalists can’t have their cake and eat it, too

August 28, 2018 • by Lior Erez

This July, German football star Mesut Özil resigned from the national team. His resignation provides a dramatic illustration of the crisis of multiculturalism in Europe. Özil, the son of Turkish immigrants, resigned with a public letter on social media. “I am a German when we win, an immigrant when we lose,” he ...

The Özil Affair and the Limits of Progressive Nationalism

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BlacKkKlansman

Spike Lee’s answer to The Birth of a Nation

August 28, 2018 • by Mark Allan Williams

“Do the Right Thing.” “Jungle Fever.” “Malcolm X.” Now “BlacKkKlansman.” No maker of feature films in our time, or perhaps during any time, has placed so much of their work at the center of the social and political discourse as Spike Lee. His cinematic voice is political and his platform is ...

Blue Monday

Evil Ways

Reflections on sometimes supporting politicians who make us sick, and on politicians and musicians who raise us up

August 27, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington Last Thursday night, while watching MSNBC, I was taken aback to see a new TV ad from the re-election campaign of Senator Joe Donnelly (D-Indiana). Donnelly, along with West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, has long positioned ...

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A12 Episode 4

The Alt-Right Rises

August 27, 2018 • by Nicole Hemmer

In this episode, Niki investigates "How the alt-right fits into the history of American white supremacy, and why they chose Charlottesville as the place to make their stand".

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Michael Kimmel’s Learning Moment and Ours

A prominent professor’s rumored #HeToo behavior prompts a fundamental rethink about gender and ethics

August 27, 2018 • by John Stoltenberg

I first met Michael Kimmel in the early 1980s, when we moved in the same profeminist men’s movement circles. We were both starting out in our writing careers, trying to reckon with what feminist women were saying and trying to reconcile it with how we understood ourselves as men. I ...