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Ireland’s Victory for Marriage Equality, Continued

How Irish was it? And how much of a victory?

July 22, 2015 • by Peter Drucker

I very much liked Sinéad Kennedy’s piece on the yes to same-sex marriage in the Irish referendum. I share her sense that the 62% yes vote on May 22 was an impressive progressive victory. At the same time, I strongly agree with her statement, “As a political ...

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Jonathan Schell Remembered

Letters from The New School for Social Research

March 31, 2014 • by James Miller and Elzbieta Matynia

Here are two remembrances of a distinguished colleague, Jonathan Schell, who died last Tuesday. Miller wrote his as a letter to the members of the Committee on Liberal Studies, where Schell once taught. Matynia’s is a remembrance of Schell’s public engagements as a writer and public actor, ...

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