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As West Virginia Goes…

Reflections on the West Virginia Teacher’s Strike

March 27, 2018 • by Ken Fones-Wolf

For the second time in eighteen months, West Virginia has become a bellwether for the nation according to many pundits. In the fall of 2016, reporters latched onto “Trump whisperer” J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, to explain why the once solidly Democratic state now led the country in voting for the ...

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Critical Love

Night of Philosophy Love Symposium

March 27, 2018 • by Samantha Rose Hill

Mériam Korichi invited me to prepare a ten-minute speech for a Symposium of Love that she was hosting at the annual Night of Philosophy. Realizing I didn’t have anything to say about love, I thought about how I might begin to answer the question: What is love? What unfolded was ...

Blue Monday

Ladies Swing the Band

A reflection on women who know stuff

March 26, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington The month of March is Women’s History Month in the United States. This was not always so. Indeed, the notion that women were important historical actors has been regarded as absurd for most times and ...

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Reading and Misreading ISIS

An excerpt from Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou’s latest book

March 26, 2018 • by Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou

On March 29th, 2018, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou will give a talk entitled "Conceptualizing the Islamic State" in the Sociology Lecture Series of The New School. The talk will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Wolff Conference room (D1103) of Albert and Vera List Academic Center (6 East 16th Street, the 11th Floor.) Q&A What prompted you ...

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A Night of Philosophy

Reintroducing the flute player

March 26, 2018 • by Mériam Korichi

25 centuries after Plato’s Symposium… 1. “All you need is love”? “Make love not war”? These slogans were made famous by the radical counter-culture movement in the US in the early 1960’s and were to go viral in the year 1968 when the intellectual, social and political contestation spread to the whole ...

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Democratic Crisis and the Politics of Social Media

Claire Potter on her upcoming Democracy & Diversity Institute course

March 25, 2018 • by TCDS

“One of the things that’s so interesting about Democracy and social media today is that it’s a paradox… I think all the possibilities for social media being a democratic space are still there, but recent history suggests that social media has also been complicit in foreclosing Democracy, not just in ...

Democratic Crisis and the Politics of Social Media

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The Political Chill of Snow

Anti-Semitism, Populism, and the Present

March 25, 2018 • by Andrew Seal

In New Hampshire -- where I live -- decisions to cancel classes are based more on what time the snow stops falling rather than how much snow is expected to fall. If it stops early enough the night before, school will be open the next day, whether the snow gauge ...

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The Fox News-Fake News-Trump Nexus

On the link between political orientation and the inclination to believe fake news

March 24, 2018 • by Sanford Schram and Richard Fording

In today’s overheated political climate, people are increasingly noting how difficult it is to convince others, who disagree, to alter their beliefs. Public discourse seems ever more compartmentalized in “silos,” where people express themselves in an “echo chamber” or “bubble” that reinforces their pre-existing biases. Contravening facts rarely get in ...

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The Practical and Principled Gray Argument for Democratic Party Solidarity

Reflections of an Unreconstructed Deaniac

March 23, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I am a committed partisan of “the democratic wing of the Democratic Party,” and have been so ever since Howard Dean ran for Democratic nomination to be President of the United States in 2004. I worked for his candidacy, wrote about it in The Politics of Small Things, and later wrote about ...

The Practical and Principled Gray Argument for Democratic Party Solidarity

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Authenticity, American Style

The meaning of authenticity in the era of “reality show” politics

March 23, 2018 • by Jeremy Safran

In her 2012 book The Politics of Authenticity in American Presidential Campaigns, Erica Seifert documents the growing importance over a 25-year period of the voters’ perception of candidates’ authenticity in determining the outcome of presidential elections. In recent years Al Gore, John Kerry and Mitt Romney’s bids for the presidency were all ...

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Making Knowledge Available

The media of generous scholarship

March 22, 2018 • by Shannon Mattern

A few weeks ago, shortly after reading that Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher, had made over €1 billion in profit in 2017, I received notice of a new journal issue on decolonization and media.* “Decolonization” denotes the dismantling of imperialism, the overturning of systems of domination, and the founding ...

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Crossing Ironbound Borders

A journey of environmental justice

March 22, 2018 • by Ana I. Baptista

When I was a child, the city of Newark, New Jersey was often the punchline of bad jokes about urban blight and decay. But to me it was home. And it shaped my understanding of what I would dedicate my life to pursuing: Environmental justice. Growing up in a place called ...