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The Rhythm of Resilience

A Deep Ecology of Entangled Relationality

August 6, 2018 • by Karen Hopenwasser

Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma, edited by Jill Salberg and Sue Grand, takes a novel view in psychoanalysis using a trans-generational, social, political and cultural model to fathom trauma and its transmission. The view is radical in its departure from orthodox psychoanalytic trajectories ...

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How to Save 8.1 Million Seniors from Poverty by 2045

July 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55

August 5, 2018 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an unemployment rate of 3.1% for workers age 55 and older for the month of July, which represents no change from June. While the headline unemployment rate for older workers is at an historic low, an increasing share of older workers are in bad jobs with low and stagnant wages. Without access ...

How to Save 8.1 Million Seniors from Poverty by 2045

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Trump’s Outrageousness and Democratic Opportunity

Looking ahead to the midterm elections after Trump’s recent international misconducts

August 4, 2018 • by John Lawrence

O.K., pop quiz. Which name does not belong on the following list: Aaron Burr, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, Bob Hope and Donald Trump? After Monday’s eye-popping, breath-taking display of Trumpian obsequiousness and naiveté, the answer is pretty obvious. Old Ski Nose was a patriot, through and through. Not so Donald Trump, whose irresponsible, ...

Trump’s Outrageousness and Democratic Opportunity

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Public Space, Public Art, and Public Memory

Responding to the Neo-Nazi Trial Verdict in Jena

August 3, 2018 • by Irit Dekel

Jeffrey C. Goldfarb is off today. He has selected this piece on the complexities of public memory as this week's Gray Friday post. On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 the verdict of five of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) members was given in the Higher Regional Court in Munich. Beate Zschäpe, the ...

Public Space, Public Art, and Public Memory

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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of The Up Stairs Lounge Fire and The Rise of Gay Liberation

An excerpt from Robert W. Fieseler’s latest book

August 3, 2018 • by Robert W. Fieseler

The passage below is an excerpt from Robert W. Fieseler’s recently released book chronicling a heinous act of arson that resulted in the death of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at The Up Stairs Lounge -- a gay bar in New Orleans. By turns sedulous and ...

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of The Up Stairs Lounge Fire and The Rise of Gay Liberation

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Gustavo Petro and the Colombian Populist Moment

An interview with Luciana Cadahia

August 2, 2018 • by Gerardo Muñoz

Luciana Cadahia (Ph.D. Unidad Autónoma de Madrid [UAM]) is one of the most original voices in contemporary Latin American political thought. Although her academic work has focused on debates in political theory and the tradition of German Idealism, her recent interventions on populism and democratic theory are charged with a theoretical depth that ...

Gustavo Petro and the Colombian Populist Moment

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The Invention of “Gritty” New York

Where did nostalgia for gritty New York come from and what makes it so potent?

August 2, 2018 • by Zed Adams

Nostalgia for “gritty” New York is so strong, it’s surprising that someone hasn’t started selling cans of “authentic NYC grit” in Times Square. Evidence of this nostalgia is everywhere, from Jeremiah Moss’s Vanishing New York to David Simon’s The Deuce. But where did this nostalgia come from, and what makes ...

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On Beyond the Academy

When university profs don’t discuss retirement, we don’t discuss our hopes and dreams either

August 1, 2018 • by Claire Potter

Like many people, I aspire to using these decades well. Accomplishing this has something to do with how much work any of us has left in us, and if so, what that work will be and to whom, other than the students to whom many of us have devoted ourselves, ...

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The Social Network of Stuff

On media, logistics and supply chains

August 1, 2018 • by Kenneth Tay

This conversation with Matthew Hockenberry [1] marks the beginning of a series of dialogues on the subject of logistics. No longer a mere subject of business management schools or an exclusive expertise of the military, logistics has become a significant presence in recent scholarship, particularly in the humanities, and is now frequently ...

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Remembering Philosopher Stanley Cavell

1926-2018

July 31, 2018 • by Laura Nelson

One of the persistent themes in the work of American philosopher Stanley Cavell (1926-2018) was that of voice -- both in the sense of having a distinctive voice of one’s own, and of giving voice to experiences and truths that may (or may not) have escaped notice. The voice that Cavell displayed throughout his career in ...

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Sacha Baron Cohen, the Yoga Vote, and Middle Children

Past Present Episode 141

July 31, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil debate Sacha Baron Cohen’s new show, the viability of a “yoga vote,” and the demographic shift bringing about the disappearance of the middle child. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: British prankster and social critic Sacha Baron Cohen ...

Sacha Baron Cohen, the Yoga Vote, and Middle Children

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I Don’t Really Care, Do You?

Foreign influence in the U.S. elections

July 31, 2018 • by Sanford Schram

We should call it the summer of Helsinki: that time after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in secret in Finland’s capital to express commitment to work together on many as yet undisclosed initiatives. Their cabal was hidden in plain sight in an outrageous press conference where Trump expressed preference for ...