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Perón in the White House

The Perils of Ethnocentric Solipsism

March 19, 2017 • by Vladimir Tismaneanu and Jordan Luber

Recently 45 was asked about rising anti-Semitic incidents in our country. The reporter made explicit this question was not an allegation against 45. He was asking what 45 would do to combat these incidents. The orange mountebank responded that he is “the least anti-Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in ...

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Trump’s Call to Order

The Politics of Resentment

March 17, 2017 • by Santiago Zabala

Throughout the twentieth-century other thinkers drew on Popper’s intuition to stress a common opposition to the universalistic aspirations of modernity: fundamental political, moral, and cultural concepts functioned to denigrate and marginalize others who didn’t measure up to its criteria of rationality. This aspirational rationality was responsible not only for twentieth-century ...

Education

Race Critical and Decolonial Sociology

Syllabus

March 16, 2017 • by Alana Lentin

The syllabus below comes from a graduate course offered by Alana Lentin during her Hans Speier Visiting Professorship at The New School in New York (Spring 2017). The syllabus and subsequent blog posts are republished with the permission of the author from her blog, alanalentin.net. Race, critical, and decolonial sociology is premised ...

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(Not) Coming to Terms with the Past

Race, Injustice and Social Policy in “Postracial” America

March 15, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

A week later, on March 6th, Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), waded into similarly troubled waters when he claimed -- in an address to HUD employees -- “That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in ...

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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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A Call for Action

Post-Election Activism in the U.S.

March 13, 2017 • by Sandra McGee Deutsch

I am among such scholars. Throughout my career I have specialized in the study of fascism and antifascism. Whether one believes that the belligerent right-wing nationalism we are witnessing today conforms to the definition of fascism or not, the work that I have done seems particularly relevant to understanding the ...

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When Is a Lie a Lie?

Trump, Journalism, and Objectivity

March 13, 2017 • by Ian Olasov

One argument against the Times’ use of “lie” was aired by Mary Louise Kelly on NPR’s Morning Edition. By definition, she says, a lie is “a false statement made with intent to deceive. Intent being the key word there. Without the ability to peer into Donald Trump’s head, I can’t ...

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FIRST 100 DAYS

THE P*SSY MISSILE HAS LAUNCHED

March 8, 2017 • by Jill Gentile

Footnotes: [1] Al-Kassim, D. (2010). On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, p. 11.

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Remembering the Female Sit-Down Strikes of the 1930s

Lessons for Today

March 7, 2017 • by Ivan Greenberg

Students of labor and working class history have searched the past to find examples of female militancy in the workplace, including strike activity. As strikers, women may be very militant, challenging authority of management and even the police, risking arrest for their activism. During the legendary sit-down strikes of 1937, ...

Activism

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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Reflections from the LGBTQ Solidarity Rally

At the Stonewall Inn, NYC

March 3, 2017 • by Lina Landstroem

A few weeks ago, I went to the Stonewall LGBTQ Solidarity Rally. It was the first demonstration I had participated in since the election of President Trump; for various reasons I had not felt the need to go to one before that. Instead, I had been fighting the president’s discriminatory ...