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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 ...

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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 ...