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Three Ways the United States Should Rethink the Economics of Higher Education

Now working in education in Australia, there’s something former New School Provost Tim Marshall doesn’t miss about the U.S. system

November 7, 2022 • by Tim Marshall

While tuition fees in Australia remain modest in comparison to the US, the design of the repayment scheme is also worth consideration. This scheme is available to students attending both government, and the growing number of accredited private, institutions. Unlike the US, where private lenders and servicers play an important ...

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Work-based Campaigns Have Shifted the Focus From Victims to Structures

A look at Sweden and sexual harassment

February 1, 2018 • by Ann Ighe

This post was originally published by Eurozine and was accompanied by three other posts that Public Seminar will repost throughout the week. Following the first wave of the #MeToo movement, a new phase of reflection has set in. Here, four authors and journal editors from the US and Europe assess #MeToo's ...

Work-based Campaigns Have Shifted the Focus From Victims to Structures

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Swedish Cash-Phobia

The fall of a kingdom, or when cash is no longer king

February 1, 2018 • by Angelica Stathopoulos

This Christmas I returned to the motherland to see family, friends, and to experience the short days, dark nights, and inexhaustible snowfalls that we in the north of Sweden are regularly blessed with. On New Year’s day I took a bus south to Stockholm to revisit my prior place of ...

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Solecism or Barbarism (Part 2)

The Swedish Nationalist Milieu and a Cultural Struggle from the Right

September 21, 2017 • by Karl Ekeman

Swedish radical nationalism has undergone a process of normalization, much like its international counterparts. In Sweden, such a normalization becomes evident in the fact that, according to recent opinion polls, the nationalist Sweden Democrats have swelled to become the second largest political party in terms of support. However, parliamentary pursuits ...

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Solecism or Barbarism (Part 1)

The Swedish Nationalist Milieu and a Cultural Struggle from the Right

September 19, 2017 • by Karl Ekeman

Swedish radical nationalism has undergone a process of normalization, much like its international counterparts. In Sweden, such a normalization becomes evident in the fact that, according to recent opinion polls, the nationalist Sweden Democrats have swelled to become the second largest political party in terms of support. However, parliamentary pursuits ...