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Why We Need to Defeat White Supremacy at the Ballot Box

North Carolina shows what can happen when anti-Black racism goes mainstream

October 22, 2020 • by Robert Korstad and James Leloudis

Across the nation, white supremacists are growing bolder while our president expresses his approval. Though we have good reason to fear the Proud Boys and other modern-day incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan, we should not focus only on these militant and sometimes heavily armed fringe groups. In the United States, ...

Why We Need to Defeat White Supremacy at the Ballot Box

Democracy

Biden is Changing What ‘Bipartisan’ Means

GOP demands used to be the beginning of Democratic thinking

October 22, 2020 • by John Stoehr

I don’t get annoyed by politicians. Not usually. I understand they must say and do things normal people would never say and do. I don’t hold them to standards I’d normally hold normal people to. Dianne Feinstein, however, is an exception. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee used precious minutes ...

Biden is Changing What ‘Bipartisan’ Means

Democracy

Why Are There No Protestants on the Supreme Court?

Protecting the rights of religious minorities may propel some legal scholars to the top

October 22, 2020 • by Peter Rutland and Şener Aktürk

President Trump’s decision to nominate Amy Coney Barrett for the United States Supreme Court led some Republicans to complain about anti-Catholic bias. Democrats, they charged, were suggesting that Barrett’s Catholic faith could prevent her from making independent judicial decisions. Their evidence? Senator Dianne Feinstein, during Barrett’s earlier confirmation hearing, saying: ...

Why Are There No Protestants on the Supreme Court?

Education

Why The New School Will Survive

An imprudent venture in historical context

October 22, 2020 • by Judith Friedlander

Ginia Bellafante is not the first reporter at The New York Times to call attention to the serious financial troubles of The New School. Since its founding in 1919, the university has repeatedly faced major budgetary shortfalls, the details of which the Times has faithfully and dramatically recorded. Each time, The ...

Economy

Why We Need to Forgive Pandemic Debt

In a “Force Majeure Global Catastrophe,” we need to take extraordinary steps

October 22, 2020 • by David McClean

The way economies have weathered the pandemic, so far, has been through very muscular interventions by the world’s central banks. To address the economic damage done by COVID-19, governments have borrowed, in the aggregate, trillions of dollars from central banks, using the money to do everything from prop up falling asset ...

Higher Ed

The Tenured Radical

A brief character study

October 22, 2020 • by Aurora Borealis

------ The tenured radical is a mean creature. No blunder is too small to point out and magnify, no conversation too anodyne to incite accusations of “violence” and “colonization.” To them, there is no difference between The Jakarta Method and a white colleague speaking too much at a faculty meeting. Violence ...

Fashion

Will Covid-19 Be My Fashion Therapist?

Reexamining the vastness of fashion in the confined pandemic habitiation

October 21, 2020 • by Sanem Odabaşi

We are the beginners of a new life All we know is reforming --Cemal Sureya As soon as the Covid-19 pandemic started, survivability became one of our biggest concerns. We had to welcome all ideas on how to strengthen our immunity, concerning what we had and what "things" might do to us. Covid-19, ...

Migration

Empathy

The only avenue in which humans can understand tragedy

October 21, 2020 • by Sebastian Ward

No human can have the exact same experience as another, but we can experience similar emotions. It is through emotions that we are able to display empathy; an understanding of feeling. Of course, I have always been able to feel empathy for people in Nazi concentration camps, but one particular ...

Democracy

Donald Trump Politicized the Federal Bureaucracy: The Next President Needs to Reverse That

How to rebuild our broken government

October 21, 2020 • by Yevgeny Shrago and Mariama Eversley

In an effort to mitigate the political damage from failing to contain the virus and manage its corollary crises, the White House recently mandated that the Department of Agriculture include a signed letter from Donald Trump inside food boxes, claiming credit for the federal program providing food to families in ...

Donald Trump Politicized the Federal Bureaucracy: The Next President Needs to Reverse That

Climate & Ecology

Chimpanzee Culture Wars

Cultural primatology in the Anthropocene

October 20, 2020 • by Nicolas Langlitz

Photo Credit: Observing chimpanzee cultures in the wild, Bossou, Guinea / Nicolas Langlitz ————— As the culture wars became more heated in the 1980s, significant parts of American cultural anthropology broke ties with evolutionary anthropology. Supposedly, the evolutionists’ Panglossian perspective regarded human life as perfectly adapted and thereby naturalized the status quo ...

Capitalism

Why Business Depends on Big Government

The economy was meant to be underwritten by tax dollars—but Americans don’t want to know that

October 20, 2020 • by Lawrence Glickman

————— One of the most telling statements of our political era was made by Republican Dick Cheney in a Vice Presidential debate with Democrat Joe Lieberman on October 5, 2000, 20 years ago this month. Lieberman jibed that Cheney, the Republican nominee, had profited handsomely from the job he had recently ...

Migration

The Last Time I Saw Them- New Democracy Seminar Forum

On the uses and disadvantages of historical comparisons for life

October 19, 2020 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Marci Shore and Stephen Naron

Can understanding distant parts of the world inspire deeper ways of thinking about our own? Can understanding moments in the past help us to think more creatively about the present? The Nietzschean “on the uses and disadvantages” is intended to suggest that thinking across time and space is not a ...

Essays

Why We Need to Defeat White Supremacy at the Ballot Box

North Carolina shows what can happen when anti-Black racism goes mainstream

Biden is Changing What ‘Bipartisan’ Means

GOP demands used to be the beginning of Democratic thinking

Why Are There No Protestants on the Supreme Court?

Protecting the rights of religious minorities may propel some legal scholars to the top

Why The New School Will Survive

An imprudent venture in historical context

Why We Need to Forgive Pandemic Debt

In a “Force Majeure Global Catastrophe,” we need to take extraordinary steps

The Tenured Radical

A brief character study

Will Covid-19 Be My Fashion Therapist?

Reexamining the vastness of fashion in the confined pandemic habitiation

Empathy

The only avenue in which humans can understand tragedy

Donald Trump Politicized the Federal Bureaucracy: The Next President Needs to Reverse That

How to rebuild our broken government

Chimpanzee Culture Wars

Cultural primatology in the Anthropocene

Why Business Depends on Big Government

The economy was meant to be underwritten by tax dollars—but Americans don’t want to know that

The Last Time I Saw Them- New Democracy Seminar Forum

On the uses and disadvantages of historical comparisons for life

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