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A Different Way of Reading

Samuel Beckett, Melanie Klein, and the Voices of Intuition

June 10, 2019 • by David Stromberg

It's not that I'd never tried before. But something had to have happened, it seems, to make it possible to read the novel -- and that something appears to have been a period of depression. The reasons were complex -- to repeat someone else's phrase, a cocktail of circumstances -- and I’m not ...

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Why Freedom of Expression Is At Stake In Italy

The suspension of a teacher is sparking debate across the country

June 6, 2019 • by Valerio Alfonso Bruno

At this very moment, hundreds of Italian teachers are expressing their open dissent with this decision on social media, and writing in solidarity with the recently suspended 63-year-old teacher. My aim is not to analyze whether the comparison between Interior Minister and rightist populist League party leader Matteo Salvini and Benito Mussolini ...

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Representation, Currency, and Generation Z

How the Tubman $20 Bill Became a New Front in the American Culture Wars

June 5, 2019 • by Sari Rosenberg

Although they are digitally-native Generation Z teens, my students think that it matters who we see on something as ubiquitous as our money. Even though they spend a lot of their time online, they still feel passionate about adding diversity to the historical figures that grace our paper money. The ...

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Letter One to Germany: Visiting New York City Under Trump

In February 2019, Berlin-based author Esther Dischereit observes the State of the Union from NYC

June 4, 2019 • by Esther Dischereit

This article was originally published in German in Deutschlandfunk Kultur on February 20, 2019 and has been slightly revised. It is reprinted with the kind permission of Deutschlandfunk Kultur. --- A man on West 14th Street in Manhattan is handing out free phone cards. A small line has formed of those in ...

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#OnArrive — But Where Are We?

Unpacking the electoral performance of Europe’s nationalist right

May 31, 2019 • by Mabel Berezin

The last time citizens of European Union member states displayed enthusiasm for the European Parliamentary elections was in 1979 when turnout was 61.9 percent. 1979 was the year that the elections began and the year that the Union consisted of only nine members. In the five Parliamentary elections that have ...

Education

New School Gestalt and its Hidden Sociology

Anatole Broyard at The New School

April 16, 2019 • by Mark Larrimore

Because they were displaced themselves, or angry with us for failing to understand history, the professors did their best to make us feel like exiles in our own country. … All the courses I took were about what's wrong: what's wrong with our government, with the family, with interpersonal relations ...

New School Gestalt and its Hidden Sociology

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Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part III

The LAPD and the Rodney King Affair

February 22, 2018 • by Eileen Chen

Below is the final segment of a three part series examining the history of police brutality in Los Angeles. This series was originally a paper submitted for the Sociology of Power and Authority class taught by Isaac Ariail Reed at University of Virginia. The first two segments tracked the inner ...

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Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part II

The LAPD and the Rodney King Affair

February 21, 2018 • by Eileen Chen

Below is the second segment of a three part series examining the history of police brutality in Los Angeles. This series was originally a paper submitted for the Sociology of Power and Authority class taught by Isaac Ariail Reed at University of Virginia. The previous piece laid the groundwork detailing ...

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Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part I

The LAPD and the Rodney King Affair

February 20, 2018 • by Eileen Chen

Below is the first segment of a three part series examining the history of police brutality in Los Angeles leading up to the brutal beating of Rodney King. This series was originally a paper submitted for the Sociology of Power and Authority class taught by Isaac Ariail Reed at University ...

Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part I

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Aftershock: A Discussion with John Feffer

February 19, 2018 • by The Editors

Wednesday, February 21, 2018 AT 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Wolff Conference Room, Albert and Vera List Academic Center 6 East 16th Street, New York, NY 10003, Room D1103 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies invites you to the first of our Global Dialogues Fellowship Lecture Series featuring author and political analyst John Feffer. Feffer will ...

Aftershock: A Discussion with John Feffer

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The Speaker’s Grovel

The constitutional role of the Speaker of the House

February 12, 2018 • by John Lawrence

We may not know how the ultimate budget impasse of 2018 will be resolved (the next shutdown deadline having been delayed six weeks). Nor do we know the resolution of the increasingly tense DACA dilemma – unnecessarily created by President Trump’s decision to rescind the broadly supported program. But as ...

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Toward Sanctuary Summits

Hosted by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

February 12, 2018 • by The Editors

Keynote Conversation: Thursday, February 15, 7 – 8:30 pm The New School, Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street Stewardship Curriculum Workshop: Friday, February 16, 12:30 – 4:30 pm The New School, José Clemente Orozco Room, 66 West 12th Street, 7th floor Admission free. Please RSVP here for the Keynote and here for the Workshop. Just over a year into ...