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How the Republic Of Letters Was Killed In Turkey

Democracies are not just dying in the world; they are being killed deliberately in order to contain resistance and lengthen the life span of corrupt regimes

January 31, 2022 • by Ayşe Kadıoğlu

On a mellow Oxford evening in 2005, my colleague from Nuffield College wanted to show me some Oxford architectural gems after a concert at the Sheldonian Theatre. We walked towards the entrance to the Proscholium of the Bodleian Library in the Schools Quadrangle, where I saw for the first time ...

How the Republic Of Letters Was Killed In Turkey

Podcast

The Need for a Shorter Working Week, with Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge

Unproductive Labor Podcast, Episode 11

January 28, 2022 • by Luke Mergner and Pete Sinnott

Kyle is a PhD candidate at the University of West London and a working-time consultant for the think tank Autonomy. Will Stronge is the Director of Research at Autonomy and a post doctoral researcher in Politics and Philosophy at the University of Brighton. Unproductive Labor · The Need for a Shorter ...

The Need for a Shorter Working Week, with Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge

Feminism

No, Joan Didion Wasn’t a Feminist

January 26, 2022 • by Claire Potter

Joan Didion and feminism never had much of a relationship when she was alive. And yet, shortly before Christmas, as news of Didion’s death from Parkinson’s disease spread, prominent feminists claimed her as one of their own. Although Didion “wrote scathing commentary on feminism,” novelist Joyce Carol Oates tweeted, “she was (of ...

Politics

Antisemitism as the Final Stage of Racism

Éric Zemmour’s rise in French politics

January 26, 2022 • by Éric Fassin

We cannot be told that we have to pick our battles either against antisemitism or against racism: it is clear that there is no choice—we have to fight both....

Antisemitism as the Final Stage of Racism

Democracy

The Phantom of the “Greatest Generation”

“Citizen soldiers” of America, unite!

January 26, 2022 • by Mitchell Abidor

With the greatest generation serving as their antithesis, it has become de rigueur to mock and attack the baby boomers: spoiled children of fathers infinitely better than they. But whatever the errors and failings of the post-war generation, it rose up against war and racism and stifling rules, all of ...

The Phantom of the “Greatest Generation”

Socialism

The Socialist Revival

Can the Democratic Socialists of America claim to be a vanguard? Not yet

January 26, 2022 • by Max B. Sawicky

Could socialism be in the cards for the United States? Recall Senator John Edwards’s joke from 2008, “Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear.” Socialism has become more familiar to Americans, thanks to the politician who has done more than anyone to render obsolete its traditional meaning. That would ...

Podcast

The Biden Administration’s First Year

Past Present Podcast, Episode 310

January 25, 2022 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Public opinion of President Biden’s first year in office is polarized. Neil and Niki referred to Jamelle Bouie’s New York Times opinion piece comparing Biden and Reagan’s first years as president. Neil also discussed the POLITICO/Morning Consult report card on ...

Activism

The Power of Black Feminist Pragmatism

Why the Black Lives Matter movement is the best alternative to the anti-democratic, white supremacist, authoritarian capture of the United States

January 20, 2022 • by Deva Woodly

The Black Lives Matter movement is not a “new social movement” that focuses on cultural transformation while eschewing policy intervention, nor is it fashioned after “old style,” “traditional” social movements that attempt to move policy while deemphasizing the need for deep changes in public understandings of the problems facing polities ...

Activism

On Coming to Terms

What form should a “post #BlackLivesMatter” movement take?

January 19, 2022 • by Christopher Paul Harris

BlackLivesMatter” world, it won’t be one where the current constellation of movement organizations simply disappear or become ineffective in their attempts to bring Black people closer to liberation....

Activism

Reckoning with Deva Woodly’s Reckoning

What kind of coalition must the Left forge in order to defeat Trumpism and whatever comes after it?

January 18, 2022 • by Sidney Tarrow

Black Lives Matter was not born in the streets, even if it sometimes moved there following the police murder of Michael Brown in 2014, and again after the killing of George Floyd in 2020. But the movement, after these intense episodes of protest and direct action has not stayed in ...

Reckoning with Deva Woodly’s <em>Reckoning</em>

Activism

The Promise of Black Lives Matter

How to sustain a popular movement that can dismantle structural racism in America

January 18, 2022 • by Maneesh Arora

How can BLM activists and other allied individuals and organizations capitalize on the outrage they are precipitating by bringing first-time protesters into the fold? Moreover, how can they help people who are concerned about racial inequality—motivated to do something about it and already thinking structurally—to also act structurally? ...

Activism

We Are a Reckoning

Deva Woodly introduces her new book, Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements

January 17, 2022 • by Deva Woodly

This nation is mine. Mine to claim. Mine to hold to account. Mine to participate in reshaping. So I tell an American story because it is my story to tell....

Essays

How the Republic Of Letters Was Killed In Turkey

Democracies are not just dying in the world; they are being killed deliberately in order to contain resistance and lengthen the life span of corrupt regimes

The Need for a Shorter Working Week, with Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge

Unproductive Labor Podcast, Episode 11

No, Joan Didion Wasn’t a Feminist

Antisemitism as the Final Stage of Racism

Éric Zemmour’s rise in French politics

The Phantom of the “Greatest Generation”

“Citizen soldiers” of America, unite!

The Socialist Revival

Can the Democratic Socialists of America claim to be a vanguard? Not yet

The Biden Administration’s First Year

Past Present Podcast, Episode 310

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