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Literature

“A vulnerable, she called me”

An excerpt from the award-winning author’s new novel

March 11, 2024 • by Sigrid Nunez

In an excerpt from The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez, a writer contemplates the first spring of the COVID-19 pandemic....

Podcast

It’s Good Work—If You Can Get It

A conversation with Alexandrea Ravenelle about Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times

February 27, 2024 • by Claire Potter

As the world of work sagged and collapsed, University of North Carolina sociologist and W-2 worker Alexandrea Ravenelle decided to document this economic shock in real time....

Multi-Verse

Multi-Verse Episode 9: J. Mae Barizo on the Rhythm of Tenderness

“Sunday Women on Malcolm X Boulevard” explores care across space and time

June 21, 2023 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Multi-Verse Episode 9, J. Mae Barizo reads “Sunday Women on Malcolm X Boulevard” and discusses the poem with Evangeline Riddiford Graham....

Multi-Verse Episode 9: J. Mae Barizo on the Rhythm of Tenderness

Public Health

After We Wash Our Hands, What Do We Do Next?

The racist structure of international relations condemns countries like Haiti to cycles of epidemics

May 3, 2023 • by Guilberly Louissaint

Guilberly Louissaint writes about the the racist structure of international relations that condemns countries like Haiti to epidemics....

After We Wash Our Hands, What Do We Do Next?

COVID-19

Science and the COVID Epidemic in India

“The past as mnemonic and footnote always tempers our sense of innovation in science policy”

May 2, 2023 • by Shiv Visvanathan and Chandrika Parmar

Lockdowns reflect the arbitrariness of the state, an absence of sociological literacy about urban-rural differences, a sense of management as control without the nuances of social science that the diversity of India desperately needs....

Capitalism

A World to Win

Talking with socialist feminist Nancy Fraser about her recent book, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

May 1, 2023 • by Nancy Fraser and Claire Potter

Claire Potter sits down with New School for Social Research political theorist Nancy Fraser to discuss her latest book, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It (Verso, 2022)....

Politics

Science Under Stress, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

April 20, 2023 • by Social Research

Social Research introduces its 2023 spring edition: "Science Under Stress."...

Social Research

Conspiracy Thinking, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

November 10, 2022 • by Social Research

The Fall 2022 issue of Social Research tackles the subject of conspiracy thinking, from ungoverning to elective affinity....

Conspiracy Thinking, the New Issue of <em>Social Research</em>

COVID-19

Habermas on the Legitimacy of Lockdown

Habermas argued that the state’s duty to protect life outweighed all individual rights. His critics accused him of authoritarianism.

February 23, 2022 • by Peter J. Verovšek

Jürgen Habermas recently argued that the pandemic measures of the German government hadn’t gone far enough. To weigh the state’s duty to protect life against other rights and freedoms was unconstitutional, he warned. In the ensuing controversy, critics accused him of authoritarianism. ...

Literature

Decolonizing Daniel Defoe

How Black lives matter in A Journal of the Plague Year

February 9, 2022 • by Anna Neill

It isn’t hard to see why A Journal of the Plague Year has enjoyed renewed attention in recent times. But to invoke it without considering Defoe’s support for British imperialism and the expanding Atlantic slave trade is to make literary history complicit with colonial and racial injustice....

Social Research

Loneliness, The New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

February 7, 2022 • by Social Research

time of social distancing: a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the latest issue of Social Research engages itself with a reconsideration of the ideas about loneliness in American Culture. The literature explores the concept of loneliness, as is present in a number of notable books: David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd; ...

Loneliness, The New Issue of <em>Social Research</em>

COVID-19

A Permanent Scar

COVID-19’s impact on young people’s futures

January 12, 2022 • by William Hayward

Almost two years after the onset of the pandemic, young people in Europe are reflecting on the impact it has had on their lives and questioning what it will mean for their future prospects. Will the lives of European youth be precarious for years to come?...