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2016 Heuss Lecture: The Dialectics of Progress

Rahel Jaeggi

March 30, 2016 • by Silje Kristine Anderson

How should we conceive of social change and moral progress? How do they come about? How are the two phenomena related to each other and how can they be evaluated—as change for the better? These are questions which have repeatedly preoccupied contemporary philosophical discussion and which seem to be indispensable for a critical ...

2016 Heuss Lecture: The Dialectics of Progress

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Episode 25: Nancy Reagan, OJ Simpson, and Presidential Bodies

March 18, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

In this week's episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil debate Nancy Reagan's legacy, the impact of the OJ Simpson trial, and the politics of presidential bodies. Read more at Past and Present

Episode 25: Nancy Reagan, OJ Simpson, and Presidential Bodies

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Episode 24: Trump’s Evangelicals, the KKK, and CrossFit

March 10, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate Trump's hold on the white evangelical vote, the politics of the KKK, and the place of CrossFit in fitness history. Read more at Past and Present

Episode 24: Trump’s Evangelicals, the KKK, and CrossFit

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The Business of Being Made

March 8, 2016 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

Two weeks ago The New School’s Ferenczi Center hosted Katie Gentile and a panel of contributors to celebrate the launch of a new book and a new series. The book, The Business of Being Made: The Temporalities of Reproductive Technologies in Psychoanalysis and Culture, is the first to critically analyze ...

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Episode 23: Apple v. US, Michael Pollan, and Guantanamo Bay

March 4, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki debate the government's attempt to hack the iPhone, Michael Pollan's new documentary "Cooked," and Obama's latest attempt to close Guantanamo Bay. Read more at Past and Present

Episode 23: Apple v. US, Michael Pollan, and Guantanamo Bay

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Detain and Deport: A Transnational Ethnography of U.S. Immigration Enforcement

March 4, 2016 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

ZIMM Lecture Series 2015-2016 Presents: Nancy Hiemstra: “Detain and Deport: A Transnational Ethnography of U.S. Immigration Enforcement” February 24th, 6pm-8pm, The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall/Hoerle Lecture Hall, UL105, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, Lower Level. In many states around the world today, immigration and terrorism are discursively conflated, immigrants are scapegoated as the cause ...

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Episode 22: Antonin Scalia, Samantha Bee, and the Grammys

February 23, 2016 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Neil J. Young and Nicole Hemmer

In this week's episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia debate Scalia's legacy, women in comedy, and Kendrick Lamar's Grammy performans For more Past and Present

Episode 22: Antonin Scalia, Samantha Bee, and the Grammys

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Episode 21: The Zika Virus, Beyonce’s Formation, and Hillary Clinton’s Feminism Problem

February 17, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the Zika virus and public health, Beyonce's Formation, and Hillary Clinton's feminism problem. Read more at Past and Present

Episode 21: The Zika Virus, Beyonce’s Formation, and Hillary Clinton’s Feminism Problem

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Capitalism in the Web of Life: Author Meets Critics

February 16, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

Video Minutes: [list] [list_item icon=""] Jason W. Moore Nancy Fraser Eli Zaretsky Q&A [/list_item] [/list] The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies and the Committee on Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research present Jason W. Moore in conversation with Nancy Fraser and Eli Zaretsky about his book Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015). The conversation was moderated by Christian Parenti. Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web ...

Capitalism in the Web of Life: Author Meets Critics

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Episode 20-Clinton, Reconstruction, Curvy Barbie and Bernie Sanders’ Unreligion

February 9, 2016 • by Neil J. Young, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Nicole Hemmer

In this week's episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki debate Hillary Clinton's comments on Reconstruction, Mattel's release of a curvy Barbie doll, and Bernie Sanders's religious (non)affiliation. Read more at Past and Present.

Episode 20-Clinton, Reconstruction, Curvy Barbie and Bernie Sanders’ Unreligion

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Public Seminar Review by Dean William Milberg

An Interview by Jeffrey Goldfarb

February 8, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

By clicking the red keywords and minutes embedded in the text below, you can watch specific moments of the discussion posted above. At the end of the semester, Fall 2015, our Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldfarb interviewed Dean William Milberg. Together they assessed Public Seminar's good and bad days and how we can ...

Public Seminar Review by Dean William Milberg

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Episode 18: Flint’s Water, New York Values, and Wheaton College

January 28, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the origins of Flint's water crisis, Ted Cruz and New York values, and Wheaton College and evangelical higher education.