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Moral Blindness and Immigration in America

The Trump administration’s inhumane approach to immigration

July 12, 2018 • by Siobhan Kattago

Reactions to Donald Trump’s immigration policies -- whether in the Supreme Court’s upholding of the Muslim ban, rejection of domestic and gang violence as valid reasons for asylum or, more pointedly, the separation of families seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexican border, have primarily focused on the architects of such policies ...

Moral Blindness and Immigration in America

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A New Committee with Lech Walesa, 2018

Reflections on the limitations of the continuing struggle for democracy in Poland

July 12, 2018 • by Leszek Budrewicz

In opposition to the threat to democracy in Poland today, Lech Walesa is calling for a united front against the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), reviving a citizens committee he led thirty years ago in the democratic struggle against Communist dictatorship. Here the first of two pieces responding to ...

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Stepping Outside the Echo Chamber

The importance of engaging with differing perspectives in the Age of Trump

July 12, 2018 • by Martin O. Heisler

Like so many others, I have been frustrated by my inability to find the language and style of discourse for engaging Trump supporters in reasoned discussion about their choice and their reactions to his pronouncements, executive orders and consequential tweets. Attempting to engage in such conversations invariably led to confrontation ...

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Ask Brett Kavanaugh About Facebook

Digital media shapes democratic citizenship and we have a right to know whether SCOTUS candidates understand why

July 11, 2018 • by Claire Potter

What is Facebook? I ask this question as I am well embarked on a two-week intensive seminar, “Democratic Crisis and the Politics of Social Media,” part of the 27th annual Democracy and Diversity Institute sponsored by The New School’s Transregional Center for Democratic Studies in Wrocław, Poland. Facebook and Twitter, and the ...

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Beyond the Separation of Families

A view from Mexico on the crisis of the migration system

July 11, 2018 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso

An original version of this piece was written in Spanish for the Mexican magazine Letras Libres, focusing on Mexico’s response to the issue of family separation in the context of the July 1 presidential election. The separation of fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters at the U.S.-Mexican border, part of the Trump administration’s ...

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When Democracy Wins

Residents of the small town of Springfield, Or., band together to end jail contract with ICE

July 10, 2018 • by Jewel Murphy

As a longtime ally but newly woke activist, I found myself sitting in the Springfield, Oregon, City Council chambers as they were getting ready to vote on whether to amend the city’s controversial contract to provide jail beds to ICE. First, a little bit of background. Springfield, with a population of ...

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Democratic Socialists, Court Packing, and Audiobooks

Past Present Episode 138

July 10, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia debate the rise of Democratic Socialists, plans for packing the Supreme Court, and the increasing popularity of audiobooks. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Thanks to the recent upset victory of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez in a New York Democratic primary, socialism appears to ...

Democratic Socialists, Court Packing, and Audiobooks

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“It Never Entered My Mind”

The dissociative mind in psychoanalysis

July 10, 2018 • by Philip M. Bromberg

The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma elucidates the latest theory, practice, and research on trauma and dissociation within psychoanalysis. The volume contains meditations on the linkage of complex trauma and dissociative problems in living, different modalities for the treatment of trauma and their theoretical underpinnings, as well as ...

Blue Monday

Both Directions Together

Improvising the greatness we need in these dark times

July 9, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington I’ve been writing the “Blue Monday” column for around six months now. Each week is a new situation, a new political experience to endure and a new writing challenge to surmount. In recent weeks I ...

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New School Histories Vertical

Announcing a new vertical for Public Seminar

July 9, 2018 • by Mark Larrimore and Julia Foulkes

Editors: Mark Larrimore and Julia Foulkes A school for the present. In 1918, the New Republic-based creators of what would become the New School for Social Research* called for a re-thinking of what higher education could be. Universities were hamstrung by backward-looking legacies and structures, both institutional and intellectual. Education needed to ...

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Redesigning The New School Histories Website

An announcement

July 8, 2018 • by Julia Foulkes, Mark Larrimore and Wendy Scheir

We are delighted to announce that we have re-designed the New School Histories website. The site features a more compelling design, a tagging system that brings together materials about particular topics, and an expanded search function -- all thanks to the website developer Katerina Vaseva, a New School alum. People is a collection ...

Redesigning The New School Histories Website

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Music by the Numbers

An interview with Eli Maor

July 7, 2018 • by Princeton University Press

That music and mathematics are somehow related has been known for centuries. Pythagoras, around the 5th century BCE, may have been the first to discover a quantitative relation between the two: experimenting with taut strings, he found out that shortening the effective length of a string to one half its ...