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Wolf, Sanders, and the Scandal of “Safe Spaces”

Satire and the Abuse of Anti-Bullying Rhetoric

May 24, 2018 • by Michael Weinman

The White House Correspondents Dinner at the end of last month sent social media and the commentariat alight once again, reporting a scandal where the only scandal is how easy it is for persons across the political spectrum to be scandalized by what is, in fact, the healthy efflorescence of ...

Wolf, Sanders, and the Scandal of “Safe Spaces”

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Reviving Humanities Education

A counterintuitive suggestion

May 23, 2018 • by Andrew Hartman

A 2017 Pew Research Center poll reveals a majority of Republicans believe American universities have a negative impact on the country. It seems the nation’s system of higher education is falling prey to growing political polarization. Just as Republicans have increasingly come to distrust other seemingly liberal institutions, such as the ...

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Why We Strike

An announcement from SENS-UAW Strike Committee

May 7, 2018 • by SENS-UAW Strike Committee

The New School administration has completely abandoned the progressive principles on which it was founded. Sidestepping demands from the community to declare The New School a sanctuary campus, the administration is engaging in widespread union-busting practices while shelling out millions for flagship buildings and fancy new fonts. With an ongoing ...

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An Open Letter Regarding “Soros Mercenaries” at CEU

Michael Ignatieff, President and Rector of CEU

April 15, 2018 • by Michael Ignatieff

Dear Friends, Today, Hungarian media outlet Figyelo carried an article listing a few hundred people including members of the CEU community, who 'may' be on the list of so-called "Soros mercenaries." The publication of such a list is contemptible. CEU issued a press statement condemning this. This is a flagrant attempt ...

An Open Letter Regarding “Soros Mercenaries” at CEU

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Intellectual Foremothers

Reflections from The New School

April 12, 2018 • by Ellen Freeberg, Gina Walker and Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi

From 2015 through 2017 we traced the intellectual journey of Frieda Wunderlich, the only female professor to join a cohort of European scholars rescued from Nazi Germany by The New School for Social Research in 1933. “Frieda Wunderlich: Gender, Knowledge and Exile” Social Research, Vol. 84, No. 4 (Winter 2017) reviews a distinctive ...

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The Parthenon as a Mediator between Greek Mathematics and Liberal Education

An excerpt from Michael Weinman and Geoff Lehman’s latest book

April 2, 2018 • by Michael Weinman and Geoff Lehman

We propose here to pursue a method of speculative reconstruction to detail what can be learned about the “state of the art” in the early development of “liberal education” in ﬁfth-century Greece. One needs to be cautious in speaking about such a development at such a time, which predates ...

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Dear NRA, We Are Here to Stay

A reflection on gun violence, teenage political passion, and possibility

March 30, 2018 • by Margo Pedersen

I struggled very much with writing a piece about National Walkout Day. I have so many thoughts and opinions swirling in my head about this action and the subsequent events that I am almost afraid to put them down on paper, for fear I will leave something out. I also ...

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What Walkouts Teach Students

A Report from San Diego

March 20, 2018 • by Elaine Lewinnek

Sometimes in San Diego County, when too many people run their air-conditioning all at once, we have blackouts. The first time a blackout happened after I moved here, one neighbor shouted across the street to me: “There’s a blackout! I think it might be terrorism! But don’t worry, I have ...

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Concerns about Proposed Elimination of the History Major at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

An open letter

March 18, 2018 • by Mary Beth Norton

Provost Greg Summers University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Academic Affairs Room 202 Old Main, 2100 Main Street Stevens Point, WI 54481-3897 gsummers@uwsp.edu Dean Eric Yonke University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point College of Letters and Science 130 Collins Classroom Center 1801 Fourth Avenue Stevens Point, WI 54481 eyonke@uwsp.edu Dear Provost Summers and Dean Yonke: The American Historical Association is deeply concerned about the recently announced plans to ...

Concerns about Proposed Elimination of the History Major at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

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Analytic or Continental?

The psychology of becoming a philosopher in the 21st century

March 15, 2018 • by Reinier Hoon

Divorce need not be a tragedy. Things do turn messy, however, when parents force their kids to take sides: for one and against the other. We philosophers who are coming of age in the 21st century find ourselves, unfortunately, subject to such an unhappy circumstance. To become a philosopher today implies ...

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Teachers Are Not Soldiers

Or, why I didn’t buy a gun after our campus shooting

February 28, 2018 • by Claire Potter

Last week, I published a conversation with an old friend about the possibilities for curbing gun violence following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, an incident that left 17 teachers and students dead. Many other students, despite being wounded and traumatized, have stepped forward to ...