Affirmative Action
Past Present Podcast, Episode 350
In this episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss the past and uncertain future of affirmative action in higher education....
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Essays
Three Ways the United States Should Rethink the Economics of Higher Education
Now working in education in Australia, there’s something former New School Provost Tim Marshall doesn’t miss about the U.S. system
While tuition fees in Australia remain modest in comparison to the US, the design of the repayment scheme is also worth consideration. This scheme is available to students attending both government, and the growing number of accredited private, institutions. Unlike the US, where private lenders and servicers play an important ...
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Violence and Class Solidarity: How Employers Organized to Fight Unions in the Nineteenth Century, an Interview with Chad Pearson
Unproductive Labor Podcast, Episode 15
In this episode, Pete interviews Chad Pearson about his new book, Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). They talk about the use of violence to discipline workforces, labor battles in the long nineteenth century, the need to study the ...
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Photography in the Service of Justice
Why it doesn’t matter that some war photographs are staged
Consider Joe Rosenthal’s famous photograph, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, the image of American heroism in World War II, taken in February 1945. As we now know, the photo was not taken of the raising of the first flag on Mount Surabachi, freshly conquered by the Japanese. There is ...
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The Art of Contemplating Justice
An excerpt from Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Free Speech
When you look at any crime, it is investigated by an agency, the police, or the criminal justice system of any society. The process of justice is based on an investigation that is in turn based on the collection of evidence. Only evidence defined as permissible by law is presented ...
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Can Art Reimagine Freedom of Speech?
Curators Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich discuss Studies into Darkness
Building up to the Trump presidency in the U.S. and, at the same time, coinciding with the rise of authoritarian regimes in democracies in Europe, Hungary, and Italy years prior to that, it seemed very important to look at the Right and its complete embrace of freedom of speech in ...
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Multi-Verse Episode 6: CM Burroughs on Not Being Gentle
In three “Dear Liver” poems, a grieving sister demands response
In Episode 6 of Multi-Verse, poet CM Burroughs reads her trio of “Dear Liver” poems and discusses themes of grief, agency, and healing with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham....
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Our Bodies, Ourselves, Online
Historian and activist Saniya Lee Ghanoui explains how a feminist classic entered the twenty-first century
When we started, we knew we needed experts from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Women and gender-expansive people from different races brought their own perspectives, personal and expert, and that would help us address racial health disparities. ...
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Behind Milan’s Millennial Renaissance
The hidden costs of becoming an Instagrammable global city
I love Milan. I was born in its suburbs and have been living here for fifteen years; it’s still a very special place, a unique city in Italy. But its ruling class (and its residents) must tackle the problem of architectural and social inequality seriously before this place swallows itself....
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Life on Earth: Repeating Myself about the Putin Revelation
It is time to rekindle the founders’ hope for the United Nations
It is time to rekindle the founders’ hope for the United Nations. Like ours can be, that hope first came in the form of determination to push back against the weaponized atom—that General Assembly call in 1946 to reject the nuclear bomb. The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear ...
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People’s War and Nuclear Fear: The Anti-War Left and Ukraine
A response to James Carroll’s reckoning with peace activism
America was duty-bound to save Ukrainian lives, if at the expense of Ukraine’s sovereignty. But there is an uncomfortable arrogance to this argument, framed as tough love. Perhaps the Ukrainians themselves should determine what’s worth fighting and dying for, not the U.S....
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