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March 7, 2017 • by Chiara Bottici

I will not feel guilty. I will not. I will not feel guilty if my nails are not polished. I will not feel guilty if my nails are polished. I will not feel guilty if I put lipstick on. I will not feel guilty for not putting lipstick on. I will not feel guilty if ...

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Sidra Kamran on her strike

March 6, 2017 • by Sidra Kamran

Grassroots structures of representation like unions are key for this new feminist movement and for resistance to the Trump administration and the conditions that produced it. At the New School, graduate student workers have been fighting for our union for over two years. More than two years ago, over 70 percent ...

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Cinzia Arruzza on her strike

March 6, 2017 • by Cinzia Arruzza

I will stand in solidary with women from more than forty countries, against misogyny and gender violence, against war, against anti-immigrant and islamophobic policies, against the casualization of labor, wage inequality, the dismantlement of the welfare state, against white supremacy, and against the destruction of our environment. We heed the ...

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Julienne Obadia on her strike

March 6, 2017 • by Julienne Obadia

I WILL NOT lean in to white supremacist patriarchal capitalism.

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Mayra Cotta on her strike

March 6, 2017 • by Mayra Cotta

I WILL NOT shut up and smile when a man treats me either condescendingly or disrespectfully. The male ego will not be regarded as this fragile thing that must be protected from confrontation.

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Indigo Oliver on her strike

March 6, 2017 • by Indigo Olivier

Here at The New School we like to hold ourselves up as a radical social justice university. But if we’re the national model of what a social justice university looks like, then we're in big trouble. The New School should have been declared a sanctuary campus back in November, as soon ...

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The Frankfurt School’s Theory of Fascism

Syllabus

March 5, 2017 • by Selana Tzschiesche, Lea-Riccarda Prix and Eva von Redecker

Interestingly, what might be seen as the limitations of the Frankfurt School's analysis of "old fascism" makes it rather more applicable to some aspects of new authoritarianism and right-wing populism: they focus on the economy and psychology, but not on institutional organization and policies, so their account can also serve ...

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Reflections from the LGBTQ Solidarity Rally

At the Stonewall Inn, NYC

March 3, 2017 • by Lina Landstroem

A few weeks ago, I went to the Stonewall LGBTQ Solidarity Rally. It was the first demonstration I had participated in since the election of President Trump; for various reasons I had not felt the need to go to one before that. Instead, I had been fighting the president’s discriminatory ...

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Trump’s Macho Populism

February 28, 2017 • by Federico Finchelstein and Pablo Piccato

Donald Trump's treatment of women is a matter of politics, not just style: rooted in populist and fascist ideas that exalt male power and promote misogyny. In the inaugural debate between candidates for the United States presidency, Donald Trump could not resist using bullying tactics and voicing his obsession with women’s ...

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Blogging Politics

Democratizing the news in the era of digital media

February 28, 2017 • by Mariana Flores Lizaola

This democratization, however, has also created significant changes in various aspects of journalistic practice. First of all, it has undermined the capacity for readers to recognize what is relevant or irrelevant information, up to the point where the latter category can be identified as news. Second of all, it has ...

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Remembering György Lukács

Against a repressive act of forgetting

February 22, 2017 • by Vladimir Tismaneanu

Hegelian Marxism and with it the whole tradition of Eastern Europe’s critical (humanist, revisionist etc.) Marxism are under attack. I first read Georg (György) Lukács when I was 18. I knew from family that he was a celebrated thinker and had served as minister of culture in Imre Nagy’s government, ...

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Tyrant, Demagogue, or Fascist

Which archetype fits President Trump?

February 19, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

In order to see which archetype most closely fits the public persona of candidate and now President Trump, it is helpful to look at historical figures with whom these types are traditionally associated. In an analysis of Trump the candidate published by the Washington Post last February in advance of ...