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Economists Should Take a Page From Student Activism

Metrics help us explain the world—and ignore our own accountability

October 22, 2024 • by Govind Srivastav

I have always loved spring in Chicago. The Loop buzzes with music and awe-struck architecture fans, while the lake fills up with swimmers braving the sun-soaked but icy water. In the evening, the air is just crisp enough for a jacket. But spring nights in 2024 were special. There was ...

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The New Urgency of LGBTQ+ Pride in Paris

A celebration or a rebellion?

October 7, 2024 • by Marko Vuorinen

"We are transfeminists, radicals, and afroqueers,” marchers shouted. “Get used to it!" Their call echoed through a crowd of 28,000, gathered in the heart of Paris to advocate for the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Summer is Pride season around the world, and Paris is no exception. The main event ...

The New Urgency of LGBTQ+ Pride in Paris

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Publishing and Political Culture

A forum on little magazines and radical politics

April 23, 2024 • by Hira Ahmed, Lisa Borst, Max Fox, Charlie Lee, Natasha Lennard, Natasha Lewis, Max-Henry Moorhead and Edward Ongweso Jr

The New School’s Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism (CPCJ) and Woodbine Research Center present a discussion on the role of radical politics in publishing. ...

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Elite Capture and Racial Capital, from the University to Palestine

A conversation on the part-time faculty strike and freedom on campus

February 14, 2024 • by Cresa Pugh, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Julie Beth Napolin

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and author of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else), joined Cresa Pugh and Julie Beth Napolin at The New School in December 2023, for a conversation on racial capital in university life, the New ...

Elite Capture and Racial Capital, from the University to Palestine

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Cinelogue Is Decolonizing the Film Canon

A conversation with the director of a new streaming platform dedicated to global majority filmmakers

December 19, 2023 • by Rehana Esmail and Kate Millar

Cinelogue hosts a library of films that have been carefully selected by international filmmakers and curators from diverse regional foci....

Cinelogue Is Decolonizing the Film Canon

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Scholars Call for an End to the Violence in Israel and Palestine

This war must end now!

December 11, 2023 • by Public Seminar

We write as scholars and educators in the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts to call for an immediate and permanent cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, for the immediate lifting of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, and for the immediate release of all hostages. This war must ...

Scholars Call for an End to the Violence in Israel and Palestine

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Questioning Art in a Time of War

How the fabric of my sensory experience was transformed by Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitvah

December 6, 2023 • by Abby Merrick

Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah is nominally addressed to Jewish teens in the United States who are preparing for their B’nai Mitzvahs (a gender-neutral rendering of Bat or Bar Mitzvah). It was published in an edition of 3,000 by Wendy’s Subway, an independent Brooklyn publisher, with support from ...

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A Pioneering Palestinian Film Offers a Quantum of Solace

For those who question the capacity of rap to deliver powerful positive messages of social change, Slingshot Hip Hop supplies an answer

November 29, 2023 • by Zenzelé Soa-Clarke

Slingshot Hip Hop ends with a pan-Palestinian concert in the West Bank—minus the one rap group Israeli officers wouldn’t let exit Gaza. Even in their absence, the other groups maintain optimism: a belief that things can change, including people's minds. ...

A Pioneering Palestinian Film Offers a Quantum of Solace

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Radical Care and the Making of a New World

What is a truly caring society?

November 28, 2023 • by Premilla Nadasen

Few people would disagree with an aspirational goal of a truly caring society—but what is a truly caring society? And what is the role of the state in a radical future? What kinds of reforms move us closer to a goal of a caring world, rather than setting us back? ...

Radical Care and the Making of a New World

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A Response to “Principles of Solidarity. A Statement”

Human dignity for all

November 22, 2023 • by Public Seminar

Solidarity means that the principle of human dignity must apply to all people. This requires us to recognize and address the suffering of all those affected by an armed conflict....

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Liliana’s Invincible Summer

In an excerpt from her new memoir, Cristina Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister

November 6, 2023 • by Cristina Rivera Garza

Through this remarkable and genre-defying memoir, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy continues to shape who she is—and what she fights for—today....

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Andrew Leland in Conversation about The Country of the Blind

For some blind people, a white cane must be brandished with pride, never folded or disguised

October 23, 2023 • by Andrew Leland and Mitchell Abidor

In The Country of the Blind, Leland describes his experiences among the blind, including a course in which he artificially lives in the total blindness that will one day be his. ...