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Subverting the Symbols of White Supremacy

The wolf and the fox

October 17, 2017 • by Keval Bhatt

Fascism had always seemed to me a thing of the past. It was almost like a fairy-tale I was told -- a passive deterrent, an unreal warning -- while going through school. But school was not my education; my real education occurred as I entered the fight against fascism in ...

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How (Not) to React to the Far Right in Germany

On the attempt to respond to the rise of the AfD Party

October 12, 2017 • by Philipp Nielsen

Even though this result was in line with the last pre-election polls, this success has come as a shock to Germany’s other parties. Since the results were announced, the country’s political and journalistic classes have been engaged in a collective soul-searching to account for the AfD’s rise. A good amount ...

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The Equifax Hack

Past and Present: Bonus Episode 4

October 8, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the Equifax hack.

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Reading Adorno on Fascism in the Age of Trump

A New School roundtable

October 7, 2017 • by Lucas Ballestín

In an era marked by the rise of a paradoxically international right-wing populism, and in the midst of ethno-nationalist tumult in the United States, this roundtable reflects on the legacy and contemporary utility of “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda.” Might Freud and other psychoanalytic theorists still have something ...

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Adorno’s Freud in the Age of Trump

Part 1

October 2, 2017 • by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

Let us recall Freud's fundamental thesis in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. In this text, Freud presents a general proposition about the process of constitution of collective identities. It is enunciated as follows: "such a primary mass is an amount (Anzahl) of individuals who have placed a single ...

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Kinneret Lahad Talks Singlehood and Time

An interview about her new book, A Table for One

October 1, 2017 • by Irit Dekel

What are you waiting for? Stop wasting your time. You will die alone. You will miss the train and stay on your own! These are just some of the questions and warnings that single women hear on a daily basis. Single women are constantly being asked whether they are ''still single,'' ...

Kinneret Lahad Talks Singlehood and Time

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The New Fascism Syllabus

Taking on hate one source at a time

September 30, 2017 • by Jennifer Evans

Modeled after other important exercises in academic activism like the #CharlestonSyllabus, the #ImmigrationSyllabus, and #Trump2.0 and 3.0, the New Fascism Syllabus comprises two syllabuses, one cataloguing historiographical selections on the global history of fascism, authoritarianism, and populism over the longue durée and another curating the best public intellectual missives penned ...

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Breitbart, Bannon, Trump, and the Frankfurt School

A strange meeting of minds

September 28, 2017 • by Andreas Huyssen

Breitbart's stated goal in creating the news outlet that bears his name was to attack the "Democrat media complex" with the help of the Internet and social media. Bannon, inspired by Lenin, Julius Evola (a darling of the Italian fascists and today popular with Greek neo-Nazis and Hungarian nationalists), and ...

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Burdens and Disruptions

The Continued Relevance of Sylvia Rivera’s Trans Latino Activism

September 28, 2017 • by Gabriel Mayora

Responses to this discursive effort were swift. Within 24 hours, both professional news sites and users on social media began circulating a 2016 report on military spending commissioned by the U.S. Department of Defense that disproved the president’s allegations. This report showed that medical treatments specific to transgender individuals represented, ...