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“Embeddedness” in the Federal Reserve Comic Books

An Inquiry into the Ideological Constructions of the Social

July 23, 2019 • by John P. Antonacci

Three such comic books can currently be accessed on the Federal Reserve’s website. The Fed’s website offers us a short introduction to the series, claiming that “The New York Fed’s Educational Comic Book series teaches students about basic economic principles and the Federal Reserve’s role in the financial system.” Entitled The Story ...

Feature

A Republic of Discussion

Habermas at ninety

July 23, 2019 • by Raymond Geuss

Is “discussion” really so wonderful? Does “communication” actually exist? What if I were to deny that it does? The public discussion of exit from the European Union has already caused incalculable, probably irreversible and completely superfluous damage to Britain. Obviously, the “conditions of discussion” before the vote were not in any ...

Europe & Central Asia

Hungary: How Liberty Can Be Lost

Tyrannies always collapse, but whether Hungarians will escape with their sanity and sufficient clarity for a new start remains to be seen

July 23, 2019 • by Agnes Heller

As the Bible (Exodus) teaches and, more recently, Hannah Arendt warns, liberation is not yet liberty. The institutions of liberty must first be constituted, and people need to learn how to make them work while breathing spirit into them. The years 1989–1991 were a time of liberation for all the people ...

Feature

Remembering Agnes Heller

A tribute to a great philosopher

July 23, 2019 • by Judith Friedlander

It is with deep sadness that I write to let The New School for Social Research community know that our cherished colleague Agnes Heller, Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy, died on July 19, nine weeks after celebrating her 90th birthday. She was vacationing with friends and colleagues on Lake Balaton, ...

Make Rome Great Again

Populism in the Late Roman Republic

July 23, 2019 • by Conor Morrissey

Nearly every Roman leader revered the wisdom and the virtue of their forefathers. They were traditionalists, primarily interested in maintaining the status quo of the Roman state. If we understand the term “conservatism” to mean a school of thought that is heavily interested in preserving traditional values and is typically ...

We Must Defeat Trump

This does not mean that “centrist” strategies ought to be embraced, but it does mean that Democrats need to argue with a sense of proportion and in a way that underscores their unity against Trump.

July 22, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

A wide range of people, ranging from Never Trump Republicans to Democrats right, center, and left, to self-described “Progressives” and democratic socialists, have long known this. Some of us, myself included, have been writing about this for years now (it sometimes seems like decades). I am sick of writing about this. For it ...

Feature

Let My People Stay

That was the message at Lights for Liberty night

July 22, 2019 • by Jo Freeman

Foley Square rally as seen from the county courthouse the county courthouse is in the background Printed signs were plentiful. Homemade signs were scarce. Several politicians were present. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer is speaking Including Reps. Jerry Nadler and Yvette Clark. Nadler was the only presenter to be heckled -- by people who want him to ...

A Revolution’s Course Through a Revolutionary’s Trajectory

The path and fate of Abdul Baset al-Sarout

July 18, 2019 • by Yassin Al-Haj Saleh

The young footballer who at the beginning of the Syrian revolution was 19 years old -- a goalkeeper for the Homs-based Karama soccer team and the Syrian youth soccer team -- joined the revolution from its very beginning. He was recorded in a video saying that he began singing and ...

Education

The Scholarly Reach of Popular History

Will and Ariel Durant’s Story of Civilization

July 13, 2019 • by Lora Burnett

The full eleven volumes of The Story of Civilization, Will and Ariel Durant’s popular history of (mostly) the “Western world,” take up exactly 22” of shelf space, fitting perfectly on the top shelf of one of a couple of unfinished pine bookcases I recently bought to accommodate the spillover from my ...

Reviews

Why Intellectual Property Rights Matter

A review of Roberto Unger’s ‘The Knowledge Economy’

July 11, 2019 • by Ella Coon

The structure of The Knowledge Economy roughly mirrors this dual ambition. The 287-page work of pure theory is organized into digestible, cumulative micro-chapters. The first seven theorize the structure of the knowledge economy. Chapters eight and nine turn to the issues of inequality and precarity. The following eight chapters look at ...

Uncategorized

“The Liberal Idea Has Become Obsolete”

Putin, Geuss and Habermas

July 11, 2019 • by Martin Jay

I was first alerted to Raymond Geuss’s sour anti-commemoration of Jürgen Habermas’s ninetieth birthday, “A Republic of Discussion,” coincidentally on the same day that Vladimir Putin declared the obsolescence of liberalism in a meeting with Donald Trump. Trump, with the exquisite cluelessness that has made him so easy to mock, ...

Uncategorized

During A Trial Not Resembling Any Other, in a Court Unlike Any Other

The first elected Egyptian president has died

July 11, 2019 • by Gamal Eid

In a building much-feared by political prisoners, infamous for being a torture pit during former dictator Hosni Mubarak's reign -- partially transformed later to a court; former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has died. In a glass cage inside an iron cage, in a court inside the Ministry of Interior’s Police Academy, ...

Essays

“Embeddedness” in the Federal Reserve Comic Books

An Inquiry into the Ideological Constructions of the Social

A Republic of Discussion

Habermas at ninety

Hungary: How Liberty Can Be Lost

Tyrannies always collapse, but whether Hungarians will escape with their sanity and sufficient clarity for a new start remains to be seen

Remembering Agnes Heller

A tribute to a great philosopher

Make Rome Great Again

Populism in the Late Roman Republic

We Must Defeat Trump

This does not mean that “centrist” strategies ought to be embraced, but it does mean that Democrats need to argue with a sense of proportion and in a way that underscores their unity against Trump.

Let My People Stay

That was the message at Lights for Liberty night

A Revolution’s Course Through a Revolutionary’s Trajectory

The path and fate of Abdul Baset al-Sarout

The Scholarly Reach of Popular History

Will and Ariel Durant’s Story of Civilization

Why Intellectual Property Rights Matter

A review of Roberto Unger’s ‘The Knowledge Economy’

“The Liberal Idea Has Become Obsolete”

Putin, Geuss and Habermas

During A Trial Not Resembling Any Other, in a Court Unlike Any Other

The first elected Egyptian president has died

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