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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 ...

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Modigliani in Helsinki

Trump’s Kingdom of Misrule

February 17, 2017 • by Elizabeth Kendall

It’s wonderful to enter such a solid building, with windows already lit up yellow against the winter dusk. To get to Modigliani you climb two flights of a wide stone staircase, holding onto the curved wood railings. Finland -- wood and stone. They’ve even made a little Paris café up on ...

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What is Politicized Psychoanalysis?

Trump Problems and the Neoliberal Normal in Psychoanalysis

February 17, 2017 • by Daniel Polyak

When I ask my students to tell me what comes to mind when they hear the term neoliberalism they say: the rich get richer and the poor get poorer; the outsourcing of labor to the global south; gender and sexual compliance in public assistance and welfare programs; the systematic oppression ...

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The Politics of Disclosure

Trump’s Dangerous Authoritarianism

February 16, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Now this question has come out into the open, and certain facts have reached the light of day. Extensive investigative reporting by the Washington Post, New York Times, and other media outlets has shown that: Trump’s National Security Adviser, Mike Flynn, already known to have extensive ties to Putin, had numerous ...

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Blogs, Social Media, and the Future of the News

A Spring 2017 OOPS Course

February 13, 2017 • by Claire Potter

This seminar is taught by Professor of History Claire Potter and sponsored by the Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research. Week 1 | January 23 | Introduction Week 2 | January 30 | Getting the News Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow, "Social Media and Fake ...

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The Uses and Limits of Anti-Neoliberalism

February 7, 2017 • by Laura Nelson

There is a generalizing story circulating about the 2016 presidential election that is, I think, a clear example of how trust and suspicion not only can but must coexist whenever we reflect on events: call it “the anti-neoliberalism narrative.” The story goes like this: the establishments of both the Republican ...

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Regarding the “Institution-building, Governance and Compliance in Brazil: Politics, Policy and Business” Event

An Open Letter from members of the New School Community

February 6, 2017 • by Joana Avritzer, Mayra Cotta, Douglas de Toledo Piza, Victoria Echeverria De Carvalho, Flávia Leite, Tiago Lima, Luiza Nassif Pires, Tomás Pimenta, Marianna Poyares and Jussara Raxlen

The event remarkably embodies a one-sided set of views that is unrepresentative of and insensitive to the complexity of recent Brazilian politics. By presenting the Operação Lava Jato (Car Wash Operation) as paradigmatic of “institutional-building, governance and compliance” in Brazil the event implicitly embraces a narrative that contributed to the ...

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A Short Memory

The Women’s March in Hartford

February 6, 2017 • by Anne Balay

I went up with my daughter and a few of her friends; we found easy parking, and walked over to the State Capitol Building. It's a classic dome building, and we met on the stairs, with statues of Puritan New England staring censoriously down on us. There was lots of ...

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The City Busy Fighting Hate

Atlanta Protests Trump

February 6, 2017 • by Robin Morris

I’ll clear my calendar. Ignoring the stack of grading undone and the manuscript untouched, here are the good parts. I’ve realized justice ain’t nothing but a family thing. My sister and I drove to D.C. together. She’s a Spanish professor and I’m a History professor. We had twelve hours to dissect ...