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Was Theodor Adorno “The Fifth Beatle”?

How a conspiracy theory about the Frankfurt School made its way around the world

October 8, 2019 • by Andrew Woods

His latest theory asserts the Beatles could not have written their own songs, because they “were semi-literate in music” and “barely knew how to play the guitar.” Instead it was Adorno, a composer trained by Alban Berg and skilled in twelve-tone technique, who masterminded the Lennon-McCartney songbook. Carvalho’s remarks will baffle fans of ...

Sex & Gender

The Reckoning of Junot Diaz

October 8, 2019 • by Lucy Marx

As a lifelong feminist, I knew the #MeToo movement was important and long overdue. Moreover, I was strongly inclined to believe the accusers. But I kept coming up against my own resistance to the possibility of Díaz being fired. I’d been pleased when, soon after he joined MIT’s writing program, Díaz ...

On the Current Repression in Ecuador

An urgent appeal from the women of Ecuador

October 7, 2019 • by Maria Granda Vega

We, the women who resist - in the streets, in our territories, from our spaces and communities - we are the feminist sisters from Abya Yala, those who combat with our bodies, and sustain life; We sympathize with the criminalized, detained, repressed and persecuted in these days of protest against ...

Feminism

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

An excerpt from the first radical feminist novel

October 7, 2019 • by Alix Kates Shulman

It was always the same story, in subways or suburbs. From my beginnings in Baybury Heights, a nice neighborhood where we moved because it was “safe,” it was always the girl who was kept in the house after school if a boy molested her, never the boy. Ostensibly she was ...

Sex & Gender

We Were All Ex-Prom Queens

Alix Kates Shulman on sexism, consciousness raising and the re-issue of a classic feminist novel.

October 7, 2019 • by Claire Potter and Alix Kates Shulman

This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Alix Kates Shulman [AKS]: In 1968, the first national demonstration of the women’s liberation movement took place on September seventh in Atlantic City. It was the protest against the Miss America Pageant. And as we were marching for hours and hours carrying ...

The New School

Listening to The New School

Why podcasts?

October 3, 2019 • by Julia Foulkes and Mark Larrimore

At the time we began this project, we also began work on a series of podcasts (available here). Our engagement with New School history already spans multiple genres -- a website, an exhibition, all manner of talks and the current seminar here -- in its effort to invite more and more ...

Democracy

Hate Inc.

Why Today’s Media Makes us Despise One Another

October 2, 2019 • by Matt Taibbi

I know this because I was hired to do this work, over and over. My commercial niche, in fact, was the vitriolic essay that got people spitting mad, or poked fun at someone audiences hated. I was the Triumph the Insult Comic Dog of journalism. I actually won the National Magazine ...

Uncategorized

The Children’s Rights Movement Is Here

Are You Paying Attention?

October 2, 2019 • by Yvonne M. Vissing

It’s occurring around the world. The movement can be found throughout Europe. It’s observable across the United States, from New York to California. It’s occurring throughout Asia, including India and Hong Kong. Youth activism can be found in Australia, Africa, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The children’s rights movement is not a fad. It’s not unidimensional. It is a multifaceted movement that has been ...

Saving America’s Cities

Re-evaluating the complex history of urban renewal

October 1, 2019 • by Lizabeth Cohen

Too often the era of urban renewal is depicted as an abstract contest between unstoppable urban-growth machines and the defenseless communities that became their victims. Following the career of someone like Logue allows us to grapple with the agency, motives, and constraints on all sides and, most importantly, to understand ...

Growing Up With Bruce Springsteen

I wouldn’t be the man I am without him

September 30, 2019 • by Eric Alterman

To be honest, I don’t know how to sum up the role Springsteen has played in my life so far or even give it a coherent structure. Part of the problem is that I discovered Bruce when I was fifteen and I’m now fifty-nine. My understanding of the world and ...

Feature

Trump Is America’s Father, and Dad is Sick

America’s Toxic Parent

September 30, 2019 • by Susanna Lee

The parent-child analogy does not presume that the state leader acts as parent, but that the state itself does. There has always been some overlap between state and individual when it comes to acting as parent to the people. Many heads of state are described in fatherly terms. It is ...

Multi Media

New Histories

A new three-part podcast on the histories of The New School

September 29, 2019 • by Julia Foulkes and Mark Larrimore

Episode 1: A Place to Go for Adult Values The centenary of The New School offers a chance to look at a university that began as an educational experiment and critique of higher education. Nothing has changed more than the school’s shift away from its original mission as a school devoted ...

Essays

Was Theodor Adorno “The Fifth Beatle”?

How a conspiracy theory about the Frankfurt School made its way around the world

The Reckoning of Junot Diaz

On the Current Repression in Ecuador

An urgent appeal from the women of Ecuador

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

An excerpt from the first radical feminist novel

We Were All Ex-Prom Queens

Alix Kates Shulman on sexism, consciousness raising and the re-issue of a classic feminist novel.

Listening to The New School

Why podcasts?

Hate Inc.

Why Today’s Media Makes us Despise One Another

Saving America’s Cities

Re-evaluating the complex history of urban renewal

Growing Up With Bruce Springsteen

I wouldn’t be the man I am without him

Trump Is America’s Father, and Dad is Sick

America’s Toxic Parent

New Histories

A new three-part podcast on the histories of The New School

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