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Are the Humanities Really in Crisis?

Or is it the university that deserves our attention?

February 14, 2018 • by Claire Potter

At the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, I was lucky enough to moderate a conversation between Earl Lewis, the outgoing President of the Mellon Foundation, and William D. "Bro" Adams, the former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The conversation had actually begun a few ...

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Media and Micro-Politics

Media, the New Authoritarianism and its alternatives from the perspective of the sociology of interaction

January 30, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I have been conducting a seminar on “media and micro-politics” in a variety of different forms since publishing The Politics of Small Things, often with my dear friend and colleague, Daniel Dayan. This year the newest member of the The New School ‘s sociology department, Julia Sonnevend, the author of a brilliant ...

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Bodies, Gender and Domination

OOPS course

January 30, 2018 • by Chiara Bottici and Jamieson Webster

Course Description: Why do people fight for their own servitude as if it were their own deliverance? This is a question that has been at the heart of philosophy for a long time under the headings of voluntary servitude, ideology, and more recently domination. The aim of this seminar is to ...

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Women and Men in Dark Times (Syllabus Included)

University Lectures at The New School

January 29, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Elżbieta Matynia and I are teaching a special university wide course for undergraduates this semester, inspired by our favorite political thinker, Hannah Arendt, and her illuminating collection, Men in Dark Times. The course is a response to the present political moment. We, as did she, live in “dark times.” And as ...

Women and Men in Dark Times (Syllabus Included)

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Gender and its Discontents

OOPS course

January 29, 2018 • by Chiara Bottici and Margot Bouman

Description: We start by acknowledging that sex- and gender-based social organization is pervasive and, further, that its prominence and persistence is reflected in sex- and gender-conscious research across the humanities, the arts, the social sciences, design, and studies dedicated to social policies and innovative strategies for social intervention. We expand on ...

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The Dark Side of Homeschooling

What the Turpin case teaches us about the lack of oversight on homeschooling in the US

January 26, 2018 • by Milton Gaither

Earlier this month, police responded to a 911 call made by a 17-year-old girl, informing them that her brothers and sisters were being held captive in her family home in suburban Perris, CA. On arrival, police found her thirteen siblings, aged between 2 and 29, showing clear signs of malnourishment and ...

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Tiny Houses, Narrow Visions

Examining American inequality through the problem of teacher housing

January 24, 2018 • by Nick Juravich

This past December, the Vail School District, in the suburbs of Tucson, Arizona, stumbled briefly into the national spotlight when it announced a plan to build tiny homes for teachers who couldn’t otherwise afford to live in the district. Starting salaries for Arizona teachers are $36,000 a year, while the median income in ...

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Milo in Berkeley

Further reflections on the renewed academic free speech debate

January 23, 2018 • by Michael Weinman

What light if any, I will ask here, does this claim shine on the larger discourse about academic free speech, specifically as that discussion has come to focus, for historical and strategic reasons, on UC-Berkeley. The proximal cause of Berkeley’s centrality is the shutdown of an intended speech by Milo ...

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The Campus Speech Wars

You have conservative students, so teach them

January 17, 2018 • by Claire Potter

In the coming weeks, I want to write more about the meaning of free speech, how we understand free speech differently depending on how and where we are positioned, and whether our difficulty in listening to--and understanding--each other is a crucial context for exercising our first amendment rights. But since ...

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On James Baldwin and The New School

What It Means to be a Progressive University

December 28, 2017 • by Julia Foulkes

And it is the local experts who field questions about Baldwin. The most recent request was from the university’s marketing and communications department to confirm that he had, in fact, been a student. The Baldwin estate had agreed that the university could quote him on its website but the estate ...

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No-Platforming, “Unite the Right,” and New Free Speech Debate

Reexamining the Hannah Arendt Center’s invitation to Marc Jongen

December 26, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

As a Professor of Philosophy at Bard College Berlin honored to collaborate with Berkowitz and the Hannah Arendt Center on events both in New York and here in Berlin, I’d like to reopen this debate to touch upon Berkowitz’s invitation to Jongen itself and examine what light it sheds on the ...

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The Republican Tax Bill

How to Murder Higher Education

December 22, 2017 • by Srishti Yadav

Higher education in the US, in general, has a particular structure. Universities have considerable tuition -- often higher than $30,000 per annum. Masters students usually receive some measure of a tuition waiver, and PhD and post-doctoral candidates often receive full or significant tuition waivers along with a stipend. These tuition ...