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Politics

Testimony — Patricia

Brightly Co-Op

May 2, 2017 • by International Women's Strike NYC

Click here for the Spanish version. “I want to make women open their eyes and lose their fear.” Many women believe that they don’t work. They believe that their labor -- be it washing other people’s clothing or selling products -- isn’t real work. We don’t notice that it is because it’s ...

Education

Slavery, Race, Capitalism

A collaborative course and syllabus from Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies

April 18, 2017 • by Julia Ott

A course offering from the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, co-designed and co-taught by Julia Ott, Mia White, Alana Lentin, Kris Manjapra, Fred Cooper, Janet Roitman, Darrick Hamilton, Terry Williams, Nathan Connolly, Shirley Thompson, Ujju Aggarwal, Natasha Iskander, and Nicholas Fiori. Overview Historians' recent investigations of the centrality of racialized chattel ...

Feature

Anthony Wayne, Distributed Sovereignty, and the Bodies of the Republic

From the early modern to the contemporary USA, part 1

April 10, 2017 • by Isaac Ariail Reed

Is Wayne -- from his uncouthness to his ruthlessness to his success -- useful to think with today? There are certainly ways he haunts our present. Historians, for example, have often seen him as a forbearer of Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policies. And as such he connects, via a recent, ...

Anthony Wayne, Distributed Sovereignty, and the Bodies of the Republic

Democracy

Aristotelian Reflections on President Trump’s Unauthorized Missile Strikes in Syria

The opposite of cowardice is rashness, and courage the mean between

April 8, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

Earlier in the same work, while concluding his general discussion of virtue and vice, Aristotle refers to the famous story of Odysseus facing the original “rock and a hard place” dilemma. Odysseus knows that he has no choice but to pass through the middle of the whirlpool and a ferocious ...

Aristotelian Reflections on President Trump’s Unauthorized Missile Strikes in Syria

Politics

21st Century Populism: Crowds, Mobs, Masses, and Publics

An NSSR Sociology Conference

April 3, 2017 • by Patrick Gilger, S.J. and Ben Weinberg

A spectre is haunting Europe — or the world, so it seems — the spectre of populism. At no time since the 1920's have such large waves of mobilization frightened, excited, and rattled so many, sparking omens of a collapsing world order. From Brexit to Trump, from Duterte to Podemos, populism ...

21st Century Populism: Crowds, Mobs, Masses, and Publics

Feature

Prophets of Deceit

Post-Truth Politics and the Future of the Left

April 3, 2017 • by Nicholas Baer and Maggie Hennefeld

–Reinhart Koselleck Hindsight, much like the year we’re all now desperately looking forward to, is 20/20. –John Oliver The spectacular and traumatic failure of established news sources and polls to predict the outcome of the 2016 Presidential Election has not only heightened a pervasive sense of uncertainty and anxiety, but also given rise ...

Feature

Misrepresentation and Misrecognition

Steve King’s American Exceptionalism and its Ties to the “Slaves were Immigrants, too” Thesis

March 30, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

I don’t want to spend much time on King’s comments themselves, but let’s note here the way that “American civilization” is equated with “Western civilization”. Let’s also note that other civilizations are inferior to this civilization, precisely because other civilizations “produce very little freedom,” while “our” superior civilization produces more. ...

Politics

Focus, Please

A plea to the Left

March 22, 2017 • by Laura Nelson

The split on the left is less functional than polemical and ideological. Center-left liberals, a.k.a. “the Democratic establishment”, still smarting from Hillary Clinton’s Electoral College defeat, view the Trump administrations’ Russia-troubles, not to mention his executive orders, with white-knuckled alarm. Thus they tend to view his regime as at least ...

Politics

Progressive Media is Losing

But It Doesn’t Have To

March 21, 2017 • by Claire Potter

In "Progressives Need to Build Their Own Media," Hertsgaard details a game plan to counter the effects, not just of Fox News, but of the cluster of television, radio and websites that surround Fox like planets rotating around the sun. Conservative media have won the political narrative, he argues, and ...

Feature

(Not) Coming to Terms with the Past

Race, Injustice and Social Policy in “Postracial” America

March 15, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

A week later, on March 6th, Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), waded into similarly troubled waters when he claimed -- in an address to HUD employees -- “That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in ...

Activism

Punching Nazis in the Face

A philosopher makes the case for violent resistance

March 6, 2017 • by Eric Anthamatten

My human dignity lay in this punch to the jaw... —Jean Améry, At The Mind's Limits As white supremacist Richard Spencer was being interviewed on camera, a masked protester punched him square in the jaw. Many conservatives looked at this as evidence of "cry-baby” liberalism: unable to handle alternative points of view, ...

Democracy

What is Political Resistance?

An exploration of the word and its political connotations

February 16, 2017 • by William E. Scheuerman

Resistance now serves as a useful catch-all phrase for a diverse collection of individuals and groups outraged by our reactionary president and his allies in Congress. The term’s popularity rests on the sound shared intuition that the only way to stop Trump’s relentless Twitter-powered presidency is by no less relentless ...