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The French Politics of the Pantheon and the Monumental Hypocrisy of Emmanuel Macron

How recognizing the heroism of past immigrants serves as cover for a nation’s anti-immigrant present

April 8, 2024 • by Mitchell Abidor

It was striking that a center-right president like Emmanuel Macron, who has recently hardened his position on immigrants and immigration, would grant such a high honor to two immigrant Communists. ...

The French Politics of the Pantheon and the Monumental Hypocrisy of Emmanuel Macron

Indigenous Peoples

Belonging as Poetry in New Narratives on the Peopling of America

A new book reshapes how we talk about immigration

April 3, 2024 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Alexandra Délano Alonso and Paloma Griffin

T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso chat with Paloma Griffin about challenging conventional stories of immigration in their book NEW NARRATIVES OF THE PEOPLING OF AMERICA....

Belonging as Poetry in New Narratives on the Peopling of America

Europe & Central Asia

War and Peace in Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest

How the banality of everyday life keeps us fenced off from evil

March 25, 2024 • by Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus

In a way, our memory culture both in Germany and in Israel is an exact reversal of the reality revealed by the film. Perhaps that's why the film seems to annoy many people in Germany, who complain that it shows the "perpetrator's perspective." But memory must also be a memory ...

War and Peace in Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest

Europe & Central Asia

New School Community Statement on Navalny’s Assassination and in Support of Ukraine

Revolution will not accrue interest in a safe deposit box

March 6, 2024 • by Inessa Medzhibovskaya

The cowardly assassination of Alexei Navalny in Putin's Russia shocks the world. His tragic self-sacrifice, defying logic as he exchanged safety for arrest and murder, symbolizes a solitary hero's stand against state power. ...

New School Community Statement on Navalny’s Assassination and in Support of Ukraine

Europe & Central Asia

Germany, Genocide, and Gaza

Why, critics ask, aren’t Germans forcefully condemning Israeli action in Gaza and the West Bank as genocide?

March 6, 2024 • by Andrew I. Port

What about German responses to the claim that Israeli policies toward the Palestinians constitute genocide? Many Germans are understandably wary to use that charged term when it comes to the Middle East because of their own history—the same reason why German officials have kept a tight rein on pro-Palestinian demonstrations ...

Europe & Central Asia

Never Again Should Be for Anybody

Germany is on the wrong side of genocide, again

March 6, 2024 • by Zukiswa Wanner

As an aside, and as an African, I wish the German government exhibited the same regret for their history in Namibia with the Herero-Nama genocide and for the genocide during the Maji Maji Rebellion in Tanzania....

Democracy

The Man Who Was Too Strong

Alexei Navalny will forever remain a symbol of hope for change in Russia

February 20, 2024 • by Anastasia Shteinert

One of the first rallies I covered as a journalist was the "voters' strike" in January 2018 in Saint Petersburg. Navalny declared the strike when he was barred from participating in the presidential elections due to his criminal record. Navalny's work and his courage often inspired me to continue my ...

Activism

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

Colonization

The US Should Only Support a Multiethnic, Nonsectarian Israel

If Israel chooses to continue its current course, it should do it alone, without our funding

February 13, 2024 • by Stephen Zacks

Whether or not it sways Netanyahu, we should certainly withhold military funding now and make our support contingent on clearly stated humanitarian objectives and an ultimate governing framework that conforms to our ideas of justice....

The US Should Only Support a Multiethnic, Nonsectarian Israel

Middle East & North Africa

Wars of De-Civilization

Anti-democratic regimes and the politics of annihilation

February 5, 2024 • by Hamit Bozarslan

Syria, Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh and now Gaza: connecting all recent wars is disregard for national sovereignty as recognised by international law....

Middle East & North Africa

Losing a Country, Losing a Father

An excerpt from We Could Have Been Friends My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

January 22, 2024 • by Raja Shehadeh

My father never showed me this booklet. Nonetheless, it was the precursor to similar ones that I would write years later with the same objective, except that in my case it was to help the world better understand the nature of the Israeli occupation of the rest of Palestine....

Middle East & North Africa

The Moral Failure of My Left

I wrote as a leftist against the Left, which has discarded the values that have sustained it for over two centuries

January 10, 2024 • by Mitchell Abidor

If it was incumbent on the left to condemn attacks on civilians by Israel, it was equally so to condemn attacks on Israeli civilians. ...

Democracy

The French Politics of the Pantheon and the Monumental Hypocrisy of Emmanuel Macron

How recognizing the heroism of past immigrants serves as cover for a nation’s anti-immigrant present

Belonging as Poetry in New Narratives on the Peopling of America

A new book reshapes how we talk about immigration

War and Peace in Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest

How the banality of everyday life keeps us fenced off from evil

New School Community Statement on Navalny’s Assassination and in Support of Ukraine

Revolution will not accrue interest in a safe deposit box

Germany, Genocide, and Gaza

Why, critics ask, aren’t Germans forcefully condemning Israeli action in Gaza and the West Bank as genocide?

Never Again Should Be for Anybody

Germany is on the wrong side of genocide, again

The Man Who Was Too Strong

Alexei Navalny will forever remain a symbol of hope for change in Russia

Elite Capture and Racial Capital, from the University to Palestine

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

The US Should Only Support a Multiethnic, Nonsectarian Israel

If Israel chooses to continue its current course, it should do it alone, without our funding

Wars of De-Civilization

Anti-democratic regimes and the politics of annihilation

Losing a Country, Losing a Father

An excerpt from We Could Have Been Friends My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

The Moral Failure of My Left

I wrote as a leftist against the Left, which has discarded the values that have sustained it for over two centuries

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