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Mothers, Daughters, and Democratic Primaries

February 17, 2016 • by Eli Zaretsky

In “Not Their Mother’s Candidate,” in last Sunday’s New York Times, Susan Faludi purports to situate the difference between women who support Hillary Clinton and women who support Bernie Sanders in terms of the history of American feminism. According to Faludi, this conflict, which first appeared among feminists in the ...

Mothers, Daughters, and Democratic Primaries

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I Dreamed We Were Free

February 15, 2016 • by Moises Ramirez

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. Reflecting on this week’s reading, I must admit that my previous relationship to the concepts of freedom and liberty was under-reflected. La Boetie wrote, “one never pines for what he has never known; longing comes only after enjoyment and constitutes, amidst ...

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It’s a Big Club, and You Ain’t in It: George Carlin as Social and Political Theorist

February 14, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

I recall many years ago, when he was guest-hosting the Tonight show, George Carlin having a somewhat strained political conversation with the comedian Shelley Winters. It was during the waning of the Nixon years, where confidence in government was beginning its slide down to the Stygian depths where it rests ...

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How Many Divisions? Pope Francis, Antonin Scalia and Justice

February 14, 2016 • by Andrew Arato

How many divisions does the pope have? asked Iosif Vissarionowich Dzhugasvilli (alias: Stalin) Pope Pius apparently had few. Pope Francis, a much greater man, however seems to have many. It is the duty of practicing Catholics to obey the pope on moral issues. Pope Francis has eloquently declared, to be sure not ...

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Who Is A Nigger?

February 13, 2016 • by Orlando Hawkins

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. In 1986, civil rights hero and activist, Bayard Rustin, gave a speech called “The New Niggers Are Gays”. In this speech Rustin stated that the barometer of social change is no longer related to African-Americans since African-Americans have ...

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Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialist: A Primer

February 12, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Many people have asked me to explain the “democratic socialism” of Bernie Sanders. Below are answers to a set of questions recently posed by a bright young interlocutor. Donald Trump said this week, “We're dealing with a socialist, perhaps even a Communist.” How do you define “democratic socialist” and how is ...

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Why Cass Sunstein Is Wrong About The One Percent

February 10, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

In an article published just this week by Bloomberg, Cass Sunstein argues that the campaigns of both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have been focused on the wealth of the “top one percent” rather than on the betterment of the “bottom ten percent” and that this is wrong because such ...

Why Cass Sunstein Is Wrong About The One Percent

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Erik Olin Wright & Class Today

February 9, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

------ What if we tried a thought experiment? Just for shits and giggles? The thought experiment runs as follows: What if this was no longer capitalism, but something worse? Could we start by describing relations of exploitation and domination in the present, starting with the newest features, and work back and ...

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Gender and Domination

February 3, 2016 • by Chiara Bottici and Jamieson Webster

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 heading of voluntary servitude, ideology, or more recently, domination. The aim of this seminar is to explore ...

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Circular Firing Squads, Elephants in the Room, and Dead Parrots

February 2, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

Usually it is the Democratic Party that is most adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. This year is very different. The Republicans have beat the Democrats in setting up a circular firing squad by ceasing to be a political party, or rather by morphing into a party ...

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Paul Krugman and the Grand Inquisitor

January 31, 2016 • by Eli Zaretsky

According to Krugman’s latest column, the difference between Sanders and Clinton is this: Sanders believes that all evil stems from big money; Clinton believes that big money is one evil, but there are also other evils like racism and sexism. How stupid does Krugman think his readers are to hand ...

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Marcel Mariën

January 27, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

Mariën had a colorful life. From a working class family, he left school at fifteen to become an apprentice photographer, but after discovering René Magritte, became instead an apprentice to the Belgian Surrealists. Briefly a prisoner of war, he claimed to have spent the remainder of the war years smuggling ...