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Mayoral Statements on Confederate Memorials

Misrepresentation and Misrecognition, yet again (Part Two)

June 12, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

In this second part of further reflections on misrepresentation and misrecognition building on posts from earlier this year, I explore this rhetorical practice with reference to the current debate concerning the removal of statues of and to “Confederate heroes.” These debates have centered on the removal of four statues in ...

Mayoral Statements on Confederate Memorials

Politics

Anish Kapoor

Against site-specific politics/For abandoning intention

June 10, 2017 • by Valentina Sarmiento Cruz

Every day, Anish Kapoor wakes up at 6:30 in the morning. He drinks a cup of tea while he catches up on email and reads the newspapers. Depending on swell of emails in his inbox and to the world’s general behavior, he prepares breakfast between 7:45 and 8:00. Kapoor eats ...

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Presidential Visits to Yad Vashem

Misrepresentation and Misrecognition, yet again (Part One)

June 8, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

You will by now have seen one report or another contrasting the responses of Presidents Obama (who visited as a senator and presidential candidate) and Trump to Yad Vashem, the Israeli national museum and memorial dedicated to the victims of the Nazi Genocide, the survivors of that crime, and the ...

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Trump as Ubu Roi

On the charismatic appeal of vulgarity

June 6, 2017 • by Isaac Ariail Reed

Many are the analogies for the current President of the United States. Such analogies always contain within them theoretical debates about the nature of Trump’s appeal, the prospects for his rule, and how the coterie around him will conduct themselves in relation to Trump, in relation to each other, and ...

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The Authoritarian’s Gift

Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Examination of Trump

May 18, 2017 • by Chiara Bottici

Over at CNN Opinion, Ruth Ben-Ghiat breaks down Trump's authoritarian tendencies, including his "gift" to us.

Race

Russia is Our Friend

The Alt-Right, Trump and the Transformation of the Republican Party

May 17, 2017 • by Sanford Schram

Looking behind recent events, there are troubling developments occurring behind the scenes underscoring how Donald Trump’s relationship to the Alt-Right is transforming the Republican Party. In more ways than one. There were already signs that the Republican Party had gone beyond dog-whistling about race to being the Party of white ...

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Europe’s Nationalist International

Europe’s far-right groups and ideologues have long been collaborating across national borders to further their agendas

May 15, 2017 • by Andrea Mammone

Immediately after Marine Le Pen successfully advanced to the second round of the French Presidential election by beating the candidate from the mainstream right, Italy's far-right leader Matteo Salvini, tweeted a photo of him with the French politician, with the caption "Go Marine." He later added: "it is time get ...

Philosophy

What Happened at Hypatia?

Peer Review, Academic Kinship, and Social Media

May 12, 2017 • by Meryl Altman, Timothy Burke and Claire Potter

In response, over 500 feminists -- a mix of senior, untenured and independent scholars, as well as graduate and a few undergraduate students, signed a letter demanding that Hypatia retract Tuvel’s article. They argue that it “falls short of scholarly standards in various areas,” uses incorrect vocabulary, “deadnames” Jenner (refers ...

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The Whiskey Rebellion, Political Crisis, and the Sociology of Elite Interpretation

From the early modern to the contemporary USA, part 2

May 10, 2017 • by Isaac Ariail Reed

Among the grievances that fueled the rebels we can include an early modern version of a bailout. Government issued bonds had been used to pay the soldiers in the Continental Army during the revolutionary war. During the economic depression of the 1780s, speculators had bought these up for pennies on ...

The Whiskey Rebellion, Political Crisis, and the Sociology of Elite Interpretation

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Ordnance as Ordinance

The MOAB bomb and the Biblical Roots of Our Endless War

May 5, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

In this light, both the decision to name this weapon MOAB and the decision to deploy it in Afghanistan is tightly linked with what Judith Butler called a “new military convention” begun by Colin Powell when he described the deployment of “smart bombs” during the first Iraq War as “the ...