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The Dilemma of Black Citizenship

Perpetual Partiality and Patriotism

August 23, 2019 • by Kristopher Burrell

"I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”James Baldwin, Notes from a Native Son The concepts of universal equality and suffrage have historically provided the necessary openings for those who are not rich or white ...

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A Political Machine for the 21st Century

The Trump Organization As Platform Capitalism

August 22, 2019 • by Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer

Today, the Trump Organization lies at the epicenter of political power in the American state. How should we make sense of the family business and its relationship to politics? Ethics watchdogs and journalists speak of "conflicts of interest” when the president governs from Mar-a-Lago or promotes his golf properties and ...

Art & Design

True to the Paradox

An exhibition for the centennial of a contradiction

August 21, 2019 • by Macushla Robinson

This essay was originally published on August 21 2019. To mark the centennial, The New School approached Anna Harsanyi and myself (we are both alumni of The New School) to curate an exhibition in the Sheila Johnson Design Center. For me, the task raised many questions, bringing me back to the ...

Race

What’s Wrong with the ‘Great Awokening’?

White Liberals’ Racial Attitudes Aren’t Too Far Left, They’re Stuck within a Crude Identity Politics

August 21, 2019 • by David Forrest

According to center-left commentators, this Awokening is simply too extreme and, thus, threatening to the success of a broader progressive agenda -- whether in the 2020 presidential election or in local organizing efforts. To support this assertion, they claim that white liberals’ racial attitudes have moved so far left that ...

Democracy

Antifa Is Not a Terrorist Organization

But That Doesn’t Make It Good

August 20, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Simultaneously, racism and white supremacism have assumed a new importance. President Donald Trump is a virulent racist and demagogue who consorts with white supremacists, praises them, gives them aid and comfort, and even includes them as high-ranking members of his campaign (Steve Bannon) and administration (Stephen Miller). The mass murder ...

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Financing Medicare for All

A Modest Proposal Toward Democratic unity on Health Care

August 20, 2019 • by Duncan Foley

The proposals of progressives seeking the Democratic nomination for president, such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, to establish a universal federally-funded and administered health care system in the United States address real and unresolved policy and political problems. The most fundamental challenge for any health care system is what economists ...

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The New Queer

Aesthetics of the Esoteric Left and Virtual Materialisms

August 19, 2019 • by Luce deLire

The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots inspired cultural actors in Berlin and elsewhere to take stock. June 2019 has seen Puqs in Love at Gorki theater, The Present is Not Enough at Hebbel am Ufer Theater (HAU), the Queer Alms conference at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and other events. I used the occasion to investigate contemporary 'Queer ...

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Challenging Plato’s Prejudice Against Imitative Art

An excerpt from ‘Plato and the Moving Image’

August 16, 2019 • by Shai Biderman and Michael Weinman

For all that remains contested concerning the relationship of philosophy and film, and the status of the term "theory" in that regard, one principal result of this is the wide acceptance of a way of thinking about cinematic experience and philosophical practice as much more related than previous thought, such ...

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On Race and Repair

A Güero Reads Plato in Jerusalem

August 15, 2019 • by David Stromberg

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood with mostly Mexican, Salvadoran, and Guatemalan kids, along with a few from Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, and Korea. In some cases, their parents or grandparents had come as migrants to America, where they had been born, and in other cases they had themselves ...

Education

The Reviews Are In

Will Durant’s The Life of Greece

August 14, 2019 • by Lora Burnett

Will Durant’s The Life of Greece, the second volume in the “Story of Civilization” series, was published in 1939, a grim year for “Western Civilization.” Despite -- or perhaps because -- the book was such a popular success, it was reviewed in a handful of academic journals. Two reviews of this volume ...

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The Dyer’s Hand

Ann Snitow’s retirement from The New School

August 13, 2019 • by Ann Snitow

Ann Snitow gave the following talk on the occasion of her retirement from The New School on April 9, 2019. In their introduction, the two current directors of Gender Studies, Margot Bouman and Lisa Rubin, pointed out that Snitow, now emeritus, had the distinction of having founded the Gender Studies ...

The New School

Sex for Fun: Reflections From Ann Snitow’s Przegorzały Classroom

Ann Snitow helped change the discussion around sexuality in Poland, and she also changed my life.

August 12, 2019 • by Agnieszka Kościańska

In 2017, I published a book about the history of sex education in Poland. To See a Moose describes how Polish sex education textbooks under state socialism and after dealt with sexuality related issues. Although in many ways progressive, these books treated sex elliptically. Instead of talking about sex, they were full ...

Essays

The Dilemma of Black Citizenship

Perpetual Partiality and Patriotism

A Political Machine for the 21st Century

The Trump Organization As Platform Capitalism

True to the Paradox

An exhibition for the centennial of a contradiction

What’s Wrong with the ‘Great Awokening’?

White Liberals’ Racial Attitudes Aren’t Too Far Left, They’re Stuck within a Crude Identity Politics

Antifa Is Not a Terrorist Organization

But That Doesn’t Make It Good

Financing Medicare for All

A Modest Proposal Toward Democratic unity on Health Care

The New Queer

Aesthetics of the Esoteric Left and Virtual Materialisms

Challenging Plato’s Prejudice Against Imitative Art

An excerpt from ‘Plato and the Moving Image’

On Race and Repair

A Güero Reads Plato in Jerusalem

The Reviews Are In

Will Durant’s The Life of Greece

The Dyer’s Hand

Ann Snitow’s retirement from The New School

Sex for Fun: Reflections From Ann Snitow’s Przegorzały Classroom

Ann Snitow helped change the discussion around sexuality in Poland, and she also changed my life.

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