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The Adultification of Santa Claus

He’s not just for children anymore — and never has been

December 17, 2020 • by Yvonne M. Vissing

During the pandemic lock-down I needed something to lift my spirits and went to my go-to place of childhood happiness — Santa Claus. As a mom and child rights policy chair with an international group of human rights scholars, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out what ...

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Mourning Maradona

Football, populism and Argentina’s civic religion

December 3, 2020 • by Mitchell Abidor

Diego Armando Maradona, the controversial and brilliant Argentine football star, died on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 in a Buenos Aires hospital. One of the defining figures in international soccer during the 1980s, Maradona is the stuff of legend. In his performance against England in the 1986 World Cup, he invoked ...

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Dancing is my Amazing Grace

How art taken up as a child has shaped the rhythm of my life

November 25, 2020 • by Katherine Huggins

Dance is my catharsis: when I dance, the rest of the world fades away. I could not be more grateful for my dance education—it has propelled me to unimaginable heights and unexpected friendships. I’ve traveled the country to better my dancing, and in the process I’ve befriended people from all over ...

Fashion

Will Covid-19 Be My Fashion Therapist?

Reexamining the vastness of fashion in the confined pandemic habitiation

October 21, 2020 • by Sanem Odabaşi

We are the beginners of a new life All we know is reforming --Cemal Sureya As soon as the Covid-19 pandemic started, survivability became one of our biggest concerns. We had to welcome all ideas on how to strengthen our immunity, concerning what we had and what "things" might do to us. Covid-19, ...

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Against Biopolitics

Compensation and Confinement: Entombing the Academic Left

September 25, 2020 • by Angel Octavio Alvarez Solis and Gonzalo Bustamante Moya

Biopolitics rules, but does not govern. Even if some thinkers have insisted on describing its explicative limits or have tried to grasp the implications of accepting its truth, biopolitics is still the main tone that characterizes contemporary public opinion. What is so fascinating or productive about explaining pandemics in biopolitical ...

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Is America Going Down Like Custer?

When defiance is the coin of the realm

September 24, 2020 • by Deanne Stillman

These flags are not just warnings posted in their front yards or near fences at the edge of their property. They are a statement of identity, a definition of self, one that manifests whenever it feels threatened or is called forth. And now, that thing we all learned in third grade ...

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The Gymnast, the Pianist, and the Choreographer

June 9, 2020 • by Dvora Meyers

But it wasn’t always like this, at least not on the floor exercise. Up until the late 1980s, when a gymnast stepped out onto the mat, she wasn’t alone: there was another person performing with her, perhaps out of the spotlight, but part of the performance nonetheless. I’m talking about the ...

The Gymnast, the Pianist, and the Choreographer

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Be Strong

An Open Letter to My Students, Children, and Grandchildren

May 14, 2020 • by Eli Zaretsky

Be strong: The virus has laid bare the complete lack of leadership in both political parties and to a great extent in the media as well. Bernie Sanders is the only figure in recent times that one can call a visionary leader, proposing a future that you all will need ...

Democracy

In Praise of Bureaucracy

How our patrimonial presidency endangers us all

April 2, 2020 • by Jeffrey Kopstein

But we’ve mostly disregarded one danger and it’s the one I believe is the most significant: Trump’s attack on the administrative state. The novel coronavirus bug revealed the American state, so impressive on the global stage with its ability to project unparalleled military force anywhere in the world, as shockingly unable ...

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A Joint Emotional World

An Interview With Edwidge Danticat

March 20, 2020 • by Edwidge Danticat and Heran Abate

The following interview with Edwidge Danticat, the 2020 award winner in fiction, is part of a series of NBCC interviews conducted by New School creative writing students. Edwidge Danticat’s Everything Inside is a finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction. This short story collection takes us into the intimate depths of ...

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Violence and Redemption in Northern Ireland’s Civil War

An Interview With Patrick Radden Keefe

March 16, 2020 • by Patrick Radden Keefe and Plamena Malinova

The following interview with Patrick Radden Keefe the 2020 award winner for nonfiction, is part of a series of NBCC interviews conducted by New School creative writing students. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (PRH) traces the lives of Jean McConville, a widow with ten children ...

Violence and Redemption in Northern Ireland’s Civil War

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A Glimpse of Poetic Possibility

An Interview With Ben Lerner

March 14, 2020 • by Ben Lerner and Zac Ginsburg

--- Zac Ginsburg [ZG]: It is well known that The Topeka School draws from your own life. Similar to Adam Gordon, you grew up in Topeka, Kansas, your parents are psychologists, and you competed in high school debate. Adam Gordon is also the name of the protagonist in your first novel, ...