Alice Crary Archives - Public Seminar

The New School

If It Can Happen at The New School …

The New School administration executed a corporatist reworking of the institution that razes its founding ideal of academic freedom

November 5, 2026 • by Alice Crary

This essay was first published by Critical Times, a peer-reviewed open-access journal published by Duke University Press. Reprinted with permission. The US’s recent authoritarian turn has brought with it attacks on universities that take aim at their commitments to free inquiry. Such attacks, predictable at a time when democratic norms are being ...

Philosophy

Philosophy in the Time of Techno-Fascism

Longtermism’s story is about how money gives immensely damaging ideas a foothold with philosophers and the public

April 8, 2026 • by Alice Crary

This is an inaugural lecture, delivered at an intense, precarious moment. Staff and faculty at the New School for Social Research, including legacy Schools of Public Engagement, and staff and faculty at parts of Lang and Parsons, have been told many will soon be fired. We are members of a ...

Philosophy in the Time of Techno-Fascism

Activism

A Response to “Principles of Solidarity. A Statement”

Human dignity for all

November 22, 2023 • by Public Seminar

Solidarity means that the principle of human dignity must apply to all people. This requires us to recognize and address the suffering of all those affected by an armed conflict....

Climate & Ecology

Why We Need to Care About Animal Ethics in a Time When Humans Suffer Too

Alice Crary and Lori Gruen share their “critical animal theory” in a conversation with Public Seminar

September 14, 2022 • by Claire Potter, Lori Gruen and Alice Crary

The division between “humans” and “animals” is not a natural division, but a conceptual one that privileges humans over animals, and not even all humans. This divide operates in a way that justifies the oppression of animals and humans thought to be “closer” to animals, which has often meant women, ...

Why We Need to Care About Animal Ethics in a Time When Humans Suffer Too

Climate & Ecology

Crisis / Orangutans

A case study excerpted from Animal Crisis

September 14, 2022 • by Lori Gruen and Alice Crary

From 2000 to 2015, 150,000 orangutans on Borneo died as their forest homes were destroyed and they became exposed to humans. And orangutans aren’t the only creatures to suffer from this massive destruction....