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Politics

Testimonio — Miriam

Cooperativa Sí Se Puede

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

Click here for the English version. “He aprendido varias cosas de la cooperativa: que tenemos que estar unidas, tenemos que tomar decisiones, y tomar en cuenta diferentes puntos de vista.” Soy de México. Me vine con mi mamá y mis cuatro hermanos menores por problemas económicos hace veinte años. Somos originarios del ...

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 ...