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Why I am Jewish

It’s Political

March 15, 2017 • by Sanford Schram

I do so for political reasons. I feel it is important for all Jews to now stand up and say they will not be intimidated by the hate crimes that are being inflicted on their synagogues and cemeteries, their homes and their persons. For me, proudly proclaiming my Jewish identity ...

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Punching Nazis in the Face

A philosopher makes the case for violent resistance

March 6, 2017 • by Eric Anthamatten

My human dignity lay in this punch to the jaw... —Jean Améry, At The Mind's Limits As white supremacist Richard Spencer was being interviewed on camera, a masked protester punched him square in the jaw. Many conservatives looked at this as evidence of "cry-baby” liberalism: unable to handle alternative points of view, ...

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Trump’s Macho Populism

February 28, 2017 • by Federico Finchelstein and Pablo Piccato

Donald Trump's treatment of women is a matter of politics, not just style: rooted in populist and fascist ideas that exalt male power and promote misogyny. In the inaugural debate between candidates for the United States presidency, Donald Trump could not resist using bullying tactics and voicing his obsession with women’s ...

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“We Are At War!”

Steve Bannon’s Warmongering

February 6, 2017 • by Robert Ivie

“We’re in a war. We’re clearly going into, I think, a major shooting war in the Middle East, again.” November 27, 2015 “It’s war. It’s war. Every day, we put up America’s at war. America’s at War. We’re at war.” December 14, 2015 - Steve Bannon A warmonger, by definition, is someone who promotes ...

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Giulio Regeni

Toward a Radical Use of Memory

January 24, 2017 • by Franco Palazzi and Michela Pusterla

“A highly promising young scholar of social and economic development in the Middle East,” as his obituary reads, Giulio Regeni was a PhD candidate at Cambridge, who moved to Cairo for his fieldwork, researching independent trade unions, especially that of street vendors, in post-Mubarak and post-Morsi Egypt. After disappearing on ...

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White Supremacy, Fear and the Crises of Legitimation

Reflections on the mistrial in the murder case of Walter Scott and the election of Donald Trump

January 1, 2017 • by Melvin L. Rogers

We are, however, likely to miss the importance of this decision if we do not connect it to another jarring day: November 9th. Many of us woke up (some of us never slept) to the announcement that Donald J. Trump would be the 45th president of the United States. Given ...

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Summer of Our American Discontent

New Hearts and Racial Divides

December 30, 2016 • by Louis Colombo

On July 12, 2016, in the midst of another American summer wracked by racial unrest, police brutality, protest, and violence, President Obama addressed the nation from Dallas, Texas, during a memorial service for five police officers slain in the line of duty and urged Americans to “reject despair” and to ...

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The Armenian Violence Question

A Conversation on Means and Social Change

December 13, 2016 • by Tamar Shirinian and Nelli Sargsyan

How do we make sense of a general population's acceptance of militarization? We see the following conversation as an attempt to entangle and disentangle some of the complexities of this particular historical juncture in post-Soviet Armenia. In reflecting on the Armenian experience and on the larger process of postsocialism and ...

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The Metamorphoses of the 2013 Brazilian Protests

December 9, 2016 • by Isleide Fontenelle

In June 2013, Brazilian cities were occupied by street demonstrations sparked by the protest against the increase in public transportation fares in the city of São Paulo. Over the course of weeks, these demonstrations grew, a vast array of claims was incorporated, and new types of protesters emerged, eventually taking ...

The Metamorphoses of the 2013 Brazilian Protests

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Hungary 1956

Sixty Years After

December 2, 2016 • by Virág Molnár

In a 1958 article “Totalitarian Imperialism: Reflections on the Hungarian Revolution,” published in the Journal of Politics and intended as an update to her seminal Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt called the Hungarian uprising of 1956 a “spontaneous revolution”: a rare occurrence that erupted unexpectedly, without a preceding and destabilizing ...

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What Do You Do with a Massacre?

Grenadians Vote on Constitutional Reforms 33 years After the Assassination of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop

November 22, 2016 • by Atiba L. Rougier

Nine years ago, I came across this article: “Remembering That Fateful Day” by Michael D. Roberts, published in Carib-News (October 23, 2007). It had been 24 years since the killing of Grenadian prime minister Maurice Bishop and his cabinet members on Fort Rupert, in the parish of St. George’s, on ...

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What to Do After the Election?

Moving Forward Under a Trump Presidency

November 11, 2016 • by Chris Crews

The weather in New York on the morning of November 9th was gloomy, just like the political mood. Despite numerous reassurances to the contrary, many people’s worst nightmare had just come true. Donald Trump would soon be President. It was as if the entire world had somehow come unraveled overnight. ...