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A Ray of Hope

Romania’s Results in the EU Elections

June 12, 2019 • by Maria Bucur

In the case I know best, Romania, the elections demonstrated a sustained and even rising commitment to the principles of rule of law, the EU as a democratic institution, and trust in the possibility of launching new political parties. It is a case worthy of attention because it offers hope ...

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A Regional Approach for Central American Asylum Seekers

The U.S. should pursue a policy that strengthens ties with neighbors

June 11, 2019 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

The White House leaked documents to the Washington Post yesterdaytrying to show that Mexico has in fact agreed to a significant crackdown on its southern border and that Trump remains ready to impose the tariffs, or insist on the safe third country agreement, if the numbers at the U.S. border do not decline ...

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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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The People’s Vote That Ended Communism

Lessons from Poland on the role of elections

June 8, 2019 • by Jim Bjork

On June 4th, 1989, Polish voters went to the polls to elect new members to the national legislature. The election was designed to produce a managed, incremental modification of the Communist regime’s four-decade-long rule. Only a third of seats in the lower house (the Sejm) were contested, and the newly ...

Democracy

The People’s Vote That Ended Communism

Lessons from Poland on the role of elections

June 8, 2019 • by Jim Bjork

On June 4th, 1989, Polish voters went to the polls to elect new members to the national legislature. The election was designed to produce a managed, incremental modification of the Communist regime’s four-decade-long rule. Only a third of seats in the lower house (the Sejm) were contested, and the newly ...

Feature

We Broke Fallujah In Irreversible Ways

Ross Caputi on The Sacking of Fallujah

June 7, 2019 • by Ross Caputi

In this interview, we talk to Ross Caputi, the principal author of the book and a former Marine who participated in the second siege of Fallujah to explain the timing of the book, the military significance of the city and how it became a primary site of contemporary warfare. --- Public Seminar: ...

Education

A Case of Contesting Visions

Academic freedom at The New School

June 7, 2019 • by Wendy Scheir

According to a report by Vice President Al Landa, who was called to the scene, the disruptors continued “to hoot and holler accusations and epithets” at Gideonse and were “on the verge of doing something physical.” The grad students’ account of the incident does not indicate an intention to do anything physical, but otherwise ...

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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 ...

Feature

An interview with Michael J Feldman

On Ghosts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

June 5, 2019 • by Michael J. Feldman and Josh Maserow

Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis dives into the overwhelming and often unprocessed feelings related to mourning. The book uses clinical examples of people living in a state of marginality or ongoing melancholia. Bringing together a collection of clinical and theoretical papers, Ghosts in the Consulting ...

Feature

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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Ghosts, Trauma and Travel Fever in Psychoanalysis 2

A reflection on working with the transgenerational transmission of trauma

June 3, 2019 • by Michael J. Feldman

Aaron didn’t connect hunger or continuous travel with the flight of his father’s family during the Second World War. He didn’t relate a director ordering him around now with a domineering father bossing him around as a boy without protection from a depressed mother. Cutting ties to any childhood past, ...

Essays

A Ray of Hope

Romania’s Results in the EU Elections

A Regional Approach for Central American Asylum Seekers

The U.S. should pursue a policy that strengthens ties with neighbors

A Different Way of Reading

Samuel Beckett, Melanie Klein, and the Voices of Intuition

The People’s Vote That Ended Communism

Lessons from Poland on the role of elections

The People’s Vote That Ended Communism

Lessons from Poland on the role of elections

We Broke Fallujah In Irreversible Ways

Ross Caputi on The Sacking of Fallujah

A Case of Contesting Visions

Academic freedom at The New School

Why Freedom of Expression Is At Stake In Italy

The suspension of a teacher is sparking debate across the country

Representation, Currency, and Generation Z

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

An interview with Michael J Feldman

On Ghosts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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

Ghosts, Trauma and Travel Fever in Psychoanalysis 2

A reflection on working with the transgenerational transmission of trauma

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