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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

Genocide

Preventing Genocide

Large-scale killings of identity groups do not happen overnight

February 14, 2024 • by Kerry Whigham

An increasing number of scholars and practitioners are advocating for new ways of understanding and approaching atrocity prevention. ...

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....

History

Democracy’s Endgame?

A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope

January 31, 2024 • by Elzbieta Matynia

Though surrounded by these largely man-made fires, we’ve at least been trying to put them out. It would be so much easier, though, to fight these fires if they were not fueled by massive efforts to dismantle the democratic order....

Climate & Ecology

Ethologies of Animal Politics

Do animals have political cultures?

January 29, 2024 • by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka

Consider the growing ethological evidence of how animal communities themselves do face-to-face politics....

Politics

Social Research Introduces “Frontiers of Social Inquiry”

Animal politics, climate governance, and more

January 24, 2024 • by Social Research

The Winter 2023 of Social Research, “Frontiers of Social Inquiry,” explores new and newly foregrounded areas of research and scholarship such as memory studies, inequality, race, and climate....

Social Research Introduces “Frontiers of Social Inquiry”

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. ...

Politics

Why Does the Far Right Love a Pompadour?

Big hair and bad ideas

December 20, 2023 • by Adriana Piatti-Crocker

Why do these politicians don big hair? Perhaps their inventively crafted manes serve to hide behind their bad ideas. Or maybe, like the pompadours of male entertainers, their big hair is the best way to be remembered by voters. Who can forget such hairdos?...