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Post-Election America

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February 14, 2017 • by William Milberg

In response to the demand from students for information, for historical context and for analysis of the election and its possible consequences, the New School is mounting a 14-week series of lectures by New School faculty called “Post-Election America.” Lectures will be led by experts in the topic area and ...

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Harvard’s Microcosm of Labor Inequality

Organizing the Ivory Tower

February 14, 2017 • by Cristina Groeger

Universities are a microcosm of the increasing inequality we see across society. Every year, adjunct faculty, post-doctoral researchers, student workers, clerical and technical staff, dining service employees, security workers, and janitorial staff are bearing the burden of jobs that impose more work and provide less security. In response to the ...

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Durkheim’s Enduring Relevance

Sociology offers a solution to the problems raised by Critical Theory

February 7, 2017 • by Nicola Marcucci

Émile Durkheim and the Durkheimian school also allow us to rethink the tension between the modern social sciences, and morality and politics. However, Durkheim’s analysis of this tension is, in some respects, divergent from the one put forward by Critical Theory. Sociology, according to Durkheim, is neither about supplementing the ...

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Further Reflections on Truth, Politics and Education

Media and Publics III

February 6, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This past week was fascinating. We read Arendt’s essay “Truth and Politics,” along with a selection from Erving Goffman’s Presentation of Self in Everyday life. The students, Alysha originally from India, Lina, from Sweden, and the Julian from Los Angeles, wisely decided to draw upon the diversity of their experiences ...

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Truth and Politics at The New School and Beyond

Media and Politics in Dark Times II

February 5, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The executive order on immigration and refugees is abomination on many counts. The way it is affecting my students keeps me awake. Their studies could be disrupted. Students may not be able to return to the university. Others are locked in, not able to leave the country for fear that ...

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The Intellectual Integrity of Our Spaces

The Proposed Boycott of International Academic Conferences

February 3, 2017 • by Claire Potter

This morning it was brought to my attention that this boycott, and the AHA's response to the executive order itself, was being discussed on an AHA members' forum as an offense to US academic freedom. I do not have the right to reproduce what was said on a private forum, ...

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Betsy DeVos, Executive Orders, and Playgrounds

Past Present: Episode 68

February 2, 2017 • by Neil J. Young, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Nicole Hemmer

In this week's episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia debate Betsy DeVos and school privatization, the uses of executive orders, and the growing call for more dangerous playgrounds.

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Betsy DeVos, Executive Orders, and Playgrounds

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Is it “Policing Speech” to Insist on Gender-Neutral Pronouns?

A dialogue about language and identity

January 31, 2017 • by David Reddall and Lisa McKeown

Peterson articulated his views in a lecture about political correctness, which he put online. The video soon went viral. What follows is a debate about Peterson’s views, and the political, cultural, pedagogical, and linguistic issues surrounding the use of gender neutral pronouns. It takes place between two Canadian academics: Lisa McKeown ...

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Turkey Dismisses Another 786 People from Universities in Post-Coup Crackdown

An Open Letter

January 30, 2017 • by Arien Mack

649 academics, along with more than a hundred administrative staff members, lost their positions at several universities. 41 of the dismissed scholars were members of the Academics for Peace initiative. Since July 2016, more than 120,000 people have been dismissed while nearly 44,000 have been jailed and more than 80,000 detained. ...

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On The Closure of the European University St. Petersburg

A Statement from the Public Sociology Laboratory

January 29, 2017 • by Public Sociology Laboratory

The university is under attack. The initial request to the prosecutor’s office was submitted by Vitaliy Milonov, an odious ultra-conservative member of the Russian State Duma responsible for Russia’s anti-gay laws. This led to the university being raided by 11 various federal oversight services, ranging from the Ministry of Interior ...

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Democracy and Tyranny in the City and the Soul

A reply to Andrew Sullivan on Trump and Plato’s Republic

January 28, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

Sullivan does not sufficiently stress a key component of the analysis offered by Plato: that the nature of the regime that rules the city relates to the nature of the “soul” inside each individual citizen. When we bring that component back in, I think, we can see why Trump is ...