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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 ...

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“The Young Karl Marx”

A film review

July 30, 2018 • by Ronald Tiersky

After a month in American theaters, the box office for “The young Karl Marx” was all of $58,277. This is almost incomprehensible as this is a wonderful, politically, historically and culturally rich film. A major international collaboration with first rate foreign actors, the film played at a single indie theater on ...

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How to End the Culture of Cover-up in New York City Public Housing

NYCHA needs to start providing safe public housing to deserving tenants

July 29, 2018 • by Victor Bach

Transgression followed by cover-up: This all-too-familiar scenario has played out again, this time in the disgraceful and high-profile failures to protect New York City public housing residents from decrepit and dangerous living conditions. Urgent repairs to the buildings, and restorations to the integrity and reputation, of the New York City ...

How to End the Culture of Cover-up in New York City Public Housing

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Northern Questions About Global Protection Dilemmas

A response to Arc of Protection

July 28, 2018 • by Rainer Bauböck

Arc of Protection: Toward a New International Refugee Regime by Alex Aleinikoff and Leah Zamore is a statement about refugee protection that goes back to basics and spells out a coherent and innovative perspective. After reading the manuscript, I changed my view on many points. I found particularly compelling the argument ...

Northern Questions About Global Protection Dilemmas

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Reflections on the Development of a Post-truth Regime

Donald Trump and the politically correct

July 27, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas; i.e., the class which is the ruling material force in society is at the same time the ruling intellectual force.” Marx and Engels, The German Ideology We sociologists know that each idea, each creative expression, each truth claim appears ...

Reflections on the Development of a Post-truth Regime

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Who Are We Now?

AMLO, Trump, and American Opportunities

July 27, 2018 • by Rogers M. Smith

On July 1, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly called AMLO, won the presidency of Mexico. What does his election mean for relationships between the U.S. and Mexico? What should it mean? There is much agreement on the first question: the outlook is troubled at best. There is little agreement on ...

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Tempest Tossed

Separated Children, Zero tolerance and the Border, with Denise Gilman

July 27, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Alex Aleinikoff, speaks with Professor Denise Gilman, Director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, about separated children, zero tolerance, and the border.

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Gender as Colonial Object

The spread of Western gender categories through European colonization

July 26, 2018 • by Lucas Ballestín

To appreciate the extent to which gender can be construed as a colonial object, it’s necessary to first understand just what a colonial object is. I understand colonial objects neither as ‘artifacts produced by indigenous peoples,’ nor as ‘artifacts that get taken up as emblematic of a particular (foreign, fetishized) way ...

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Feminist Economics Yoga

Political Interruptions, New Orientations & Collective Wishes for Bourgeois Hobby Time

July 26, 2018 • by Cassie Thornton

My work as an artist over the past decade has been defined by exploring the effects of financialization and debt on the imagination, in solidarity with anti-debt and anti-capitalist activist projects. I have, for instance, for many years been hypnotizing people to allow them to visualize their debt. This vision often becomes ...

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What Does “For the People” Mean?

Anodyne slogans tell us nothing about the Democrats’ agenda

July 25, 2018 • by Claire Potter

Would someone please reconsider the prominent role of marketing in politics? Or perhaps I should rephrase that question -- could we take a close look at the substitution of marketing and branding strategies for politics? I ask this question only days after the Democratic leadership, well-embarked on flipping the House of Representatives ...

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50 Years of Occupation

When will the Israel-Palestine conflict end?

July 25, 2018 • by David J. Lobina

It is now over 50 years since Israel seized Gaza and the West Bank during the war of June 1967, with no end in sight for the military occupation and colonization enforced upon the Palestinians since then. At the same time, it has been some four years since Mahmoud Abbas, ...