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Who Needs Big Brother?

Post-truth, populism, and the crisis of public communication

May 30, 2018 • by Silvio Waisbord

The following is a summary of remarks delivered at the 2018 Jay Blumler Lecture, University of Leeds. Western democracies have been in a constant state of crisis for decades now. It is hard to remember when there was no crisis. In their landmark book, The Crisis of Public Communication (1995), Blumler and Gurevitch ...

Blue Monday

Prague in Spring

A riff on jazz, dissent and democracy in dark times

May 28, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington I started writing this in Prague, on May 20, which is my birthday, while sitting across the street from Villa Lana, the home of the Czech Academy of Sciences, which for the past twenty-five years ...

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The Spy who Psychoanalyzed Me

Psychology’s long and shameful history with torture

May 28, 2018 • by Tristan Chirico

After a highly controversial confirmation process, Gina Haspel is now director of the CIA. At the heart of the controversy surrounding her nomination were Haspel's alleged ties to the systematic torture of terrorism suspects conducted at so-called “black sites” during the Bush Era -- one of which Haspel oversaw in ...

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On Recovering Memories and Truths

A psychoanalyst reflects on Jennifer Fox’s new film

May 27, 2018 • by Velleda C. Ceccoli

Those of us in the mental health field, and in particular those of us who work in the area of trauma are too familiar with the sequalae of sexual trauma as well as the grooming behaviors that go into it. We have heard many narratives and personal stories of painful ...

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From Here and There: Diaspora Policies, Integration and Social Rights Beyond Borders

An excerpt and interview from Alexandra Délano Alonso and her latest book

May 27, 2018 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso

In From Here and There, Délano Alonso, Associate Professor and Chair of Global Studies at The New School, offers an exclusive insight into and a critical evaluation of an area of migration governance that is rarely discussed: the processes through which Mexico and other Latin American countries are establishing programs to give ...

From Here and There: Diaspora Policies, Integration and Social Rights Beyond Borders

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The Tale

An interview with filmmaker Jennifer Fox about narrative and re-membering

May 26, 2018 • by Tracy Sidesinger

Jennifer Fox’s The Tale is a film about childhood sexual abuse. It is difficult. There’s no getting around that, and in fact so much of the point is to not get around it but to finally acknowledge what has always been there. But the film also offers the courage to do so, ...

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Recognitions and Company

Reviewing Brittney Cooper’s ‘Eloquent Rage’

May 26, 2018 • by Wahneema Lubiano

My feelings, for their part, go on strike against me all the time, showing up with picket signs that scream truths I’d rather not hear, all while demanding that I renegotiate terms. —Brittney Cooper (Eloquent Rage, 204) What might one want when reading a personal narrative, a memoir, a story with multiple ...

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The Banality of Good and Evil

Reflections of an anti-sociologist

May 25, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I want to make it simple and to the point. That’s the best way to go. But some days, as I think and write, things become more complicated, and I struggle. Today is such a day. I wanted to write a straightforward post on a straightforward theme, on mistakes and ...

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Economic Impact of Weather Shocks & Climate Change

How can countries cope?

May 25, 2018 • by Michael Flaherty and Isabella Rigamonti

On Thursday, April 12, The New School hosted, in conjunction with the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), a lecture on the economic impacts of climate change and the opportunities to both adapt to and mitigate it. Economic Impacts of Weather Shocks & Climate Change is a continuation of ...

Economic Impact of Weather Shocks & Climate Change

Education

Wolf, Sanders, and the Scandal of “Safe Spaces”

Satire and the Abuse of Anti-Bullying Rhetoric

May 24, 2018 • by Michael Weinman

The White House Correspondents Dinner at the end of last month sent social media and the commentariat alight once again, reporting a scandal where the only scandal is how easy it is for persons across the political spectrum to be scandalized by what is, in fact, the healthy efflorescence of ...

Wolf, Sanders, and the Scandal of “Safe Spaces”

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Bodies in Transition

Derailing gender in the liminal space of breast cancer treatment

May 24, 2018 • by Tara Mastrelli

According to political historian and gender theorist Paul Preciado, we are living in the pharmacapornagraphic era. In this era, claims his book Testo Junkie, gender is produced through the body’s constant interaction with images, imagery, and social norms that represent a naturalized sex ideal, and through technological and pharmeucuetical interventions. There is ...

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Austrian Politics

Black and Blue

May 24, 2018 • by David Kretz

In December 2017, Austria got its new government, a coalition between the centre-right Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), headed by the charismatic 31-year-old college dropout Sebastian Kurz, the world’s youngest head of state, and the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) — European ally to France’s Front national and official partner of Putin’s party United ...