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On James Baldwin and The New School

What It Means to be a Progressive University

December 28, 2017 • by Julia Foulkes

And it is the local experts who field questions about Baldwin. The most recent request was from the university’s marketing and communications department to confirm that he had, in fact, been a student. The Baldwin estate had agreed that the university could quote him on its website but the estate ...

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The Republican Tax Bill

How to Murder Higher Education

December 22, 2017 • by Srishti Yadav

Higher education in the US, in general, has a particular structure. Universities have considerable tuition -- often higher than $30,000 per annum. Masters students usually receive some measure of a tuition waiver, and PhD and post-doctoral candidates often receive full or significant tuition waivers along with a stipend. These tuition ...

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When Title IX Hits Home

Addressing Our Troubles

December 20, 2017 • by Andrew Arato

As I see it, there are two dimensions of the problem and they should be separated. First, as it is clear now, problems of harassment, as well as apparently improper intimate relationships have existed at the New School as well as other institutions of higher learning. How bad the problems ...

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Title IX Investigations and Sexual Harassment at The New School

A letter from the editors of Public Seminar

December 14, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb and Claire Potter

A faculty member has resigned from The New School for Social Research prior to the conclusion of a Title IX investigation. We have received inquiries from faculty and students who wish to publish at Public Seminar responses and reflections about sexual harassment at our own university. This is new territory for us as ...

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The People’s Disruption

Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges

November 7, 2017 • by Trebor Scholz

The first platform cooperativism event in 2015 popularized the #platformcoop concept, and the conference a year later brought together co-op and union leaders to push the model forward. This third event will zero in on ways that platform cooperatives can help to address some of the future's most urgent challenges. ...

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Syllabus: From Goldwater to Trump

A Political History of Tea Party America

November 1, 2017 • by Claire Potter

In order to think this through with students, I re-did the course, and the syllabus below that I am teaching this fall is what I came up with. ___________________________________________________ This course is a survey of United States political history and domestic policy that puts the evolution of the American presidency at its ...

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Judgment and Decision Making

Syllabus for GPSY 6421

October 28, 2017 • by Shai Davidai

#1 01/26 Introduction · How We Know What Isn’t So – Chapters 1-2 · Thinking Fast and Slow – Chapter 1-3 #2 02/02 Heuristics and biases · Thinking Fast and Slow - Chapters 10-15 · Gilovich, T., & Savitsky, K. (1996). Like goes with like: The role of representativeness in erroneous and pseudoscientific beliefs. Skeptical Inquirer, 20, 34-40 · Deri, S., ...

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Financing the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

Report and Response

October 23, 2017 • by Michael Flaherty

Once per semester, SCEPA sponsors an event relating to climate change policy and invites some of the most notable names in climate modeling and/or policymaking to give their perspectives on recent developments in climate change scholarship. This most recent event featured Dr. Nebojsa Nakicenovic and Dr. Paolo Galizzi. Dr. Nakicenovic, ...

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Confronting Fundamental Problems of the Human Condition and Pressing Problems of the Day… by any means necessary

Four years of Public Seminar

October 6, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Now many fine colleagues have joined the project, as we had hoped would happen. Their creative imagination, experience, scholarship and commitment have made it what it is today and what it promises to be tomorrow. Claire Potter and I oversee the operations in adjoining offices, across from The New School ...

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The Earth Quake, Hurricanes, Political Madness and Dilemmas of Free Speech

The Life of the Mind Online

September 22, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I am bewildered. How can so much bad news be happening at the same time? A major earthquake, one horrendous hurricane after another, the Republicans in Congress on the brink of finally making sure that millions -- old, poor and infirm -- can’t go to the doctor? Then there is President ...

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The Life of the Mind Online

The Politics of Small Things, Civility and Subversion and Public Seminar

September 14, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The future of scholarly and intellectual life will be decided on the web. The values of scholarship and the application of the fruits of scholarship to the problems of our times will thrive or wither online. It was out of a desire to test this judgment that I started dabbling ...

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Witnesses to History

Past Present Celebrates Its 100th Broadcast

September 11, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

A little more than two years ago, three historians were frustrated with the lack of historical analysis in the 24-hour news cycle. We decided to stop yelling at the TV and to learn to speak evenly and with fewer profanities, into a foam-covered microphone. And so the history podcast Past ...