Notes on red liberty
The cover art of New Narratives on the Peopling of America
Everyone is from this earth, everyone is Indigenous, everyone is illegal. ...
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Who Do You Love?
Episode 50: A conversation with Neil J. Young about Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right
Battling detractors on their left and homophobia to their right, gay Republicans have nevertheless played power politics for over 80 years....
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War and Peace in Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest
How the banality of everyday life keeps us fenced off from evil
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 ...
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Driven Mad by a Marxist Daughter
Two billionaire fathers undergo a peculiar, public psychosis
What defines Musk and Ackman’s psychosis is no longer their relation to their symbolic fathers, but their relation to that of their daughters’....
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The New Silk Road
China’s Belt and Road Initiative provokes divided narratives in Kenya
Despite initial optimism, the Chinese-financed Kenyan Standard Gauge Railway project's uneven distribution of benefits and unintended consequences unveil a complex interplay between global ambitions, local politics, and community dynamics in the Belt and Road Initiative....
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New School Community Statement on Navalny’s Assassination and in Support of Ukraine
Revolution will not accrue interest in a safe deposit box
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. ...
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Germany, Genocide, and Gaza
Why, critics ask, aren’t Germans forcefully condemning Israeli action in Gaza and the West Bank as genocide?
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 ...
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Never Again Should Be for Anybody
Germany is on the wrong side of genocide, again
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....
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The Man Who Was Too Strong
Alexei Navalny will forever remain a symbol of hope for change in Russia
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 ...
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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
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 ...
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Preventing Genocide
Large-scale killings of identity groups do not happen overnight
An increasing number of scholars and practitioners are advocating for new ways of understanding and approaching atrocity prevention. ...
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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
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....
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