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The Right

William S. Lind and His Single-Factor Explanation of History

How William S. Lind—a former director of the Free Congress Foundation’s Center for Cultural Conservatism—used the phrase “Cultural Marxism” as a delegitimizing tool

July 27, 2026 • by A. J. A. Woods

In July 1998, Lind was invited to speak at an Accuracy in Academia (AIA) conference. Founded in 1985, AIA was set up to expose instances of political bias on American campuses. Its founder, Reed Irvine, believed that universities were indoctrinating students with progressive ideologies rather than teaching them facts and ...

William S. Lind and His Single-Factor Explanation of History

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The Nude in the Library

A tale of two anachronisms

November 27, 2015 • by Dominic Pettman

October 2015 was a big month for obsolescence. First we heard reports that the OCLC’s classic library card catalog was finally being retired. Then we heard news that Playboy magazine had decided to no longer feature fully nude models between its pages. As someone who grew up taking for granted the existence ...

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Sheldon Wolin

November 23, 2015 • by Laura Nelson

The political theorist Sheldon Wolin passed away on October 21 at the age of 93. Wolin was a significant figure in the Humanities and Social Sciences, for three key reasons: a challenge, a book, and a thesis. The challenge: the consensus, at the start of Wolin’s career in the 1950s, was ...

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Democracy’s Crisis

November 24, 2014 • by Nancy Fraser

We are currently experiencing a major crisis of democracy. What is at stake here is the specifically political dimension of a broader, multifaceted crisis, which also has other important dimensions -- for example, economic, financial, ecological, and social. Taken together, all of these aspects, including the political dimension of democratic ...

Theory & Practice

A Continuing Conversation: From the Archiv to Social Research

November 17, 2014 • by Harald Hagemann

The Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research was founded in 1933 by Alvin Johnson, the president of the New School, who created there the “University in Exile” to provide a safe haven for scholars who were endangered by totalitarian regimes.[1] The University in Exile became necessary after ...

A Continuing Conversation: From the Archiv to Social Research

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Look Out Kids: On the New and Next Left

A reply to Eli Zaretsky

February 26, 2014 • by Jeremy Varon

Bundled into Eli Zaretsky’s unmistakable claim that second wave feminism was substantially to blame for the undoing of the 60s-era Left is another curious charge: that no American Left exists today, or has for a long time [“Rethinking the Split Between Feminists and the Left”]. In their response, Ann ...

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Eli Zaretsky Interviewed on Jewish Thought and Psychoanalysis

November 25, 2013 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I came across this interview on Eli Zaretsky's Facebook page as I was working on Jeremy Safran's piece on psychoanalysis. Noting interesting connections, I post it here. JG Harvey Schwartz: Eli, It's a pleasure to have you be the inaugural speaker for our new lecture series and website, Jewish Thought and ...

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Who’s Afraid of Sigmund Freud?

The rise, fall, and possible resurrection of psychoanalysis in the United States

November 20, 2013 • by Jeremy Safran

For decades psychoanalysis dominated professional approaches to mental health in the United States and had an influential impact on our culture. Starting in the late 1960s, however, psychoanalysis has become increasingly marginalized. Here, I will argue that psychoanalysis has always contained both subversive and conservative threads. As the historian Nathan ...