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FeatureLiberal Democracy in Question

You Can’t Always Get What You Want, or In Defense of False Choices

Žižek on Macron and LePen

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Michael Quirk May 5, 2017
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Democracy Seminar 2.0 will draw on the knowledge and longstanding intellectual mission of the New School for Social Research, with its founding in 1919, its University in Exile of 1933, and with its Democracy Seminar of the 1980s and 1990s. https://t.co/J5d9iSmhjs

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About 500 people came to Washington DC from different states to march from the White House to the Capital demanding that they be allowed to stay in the United States. February 12 was a cold and rainy day. https://t.co/ton5jIBWyw

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"Democracy Seminar 2.0 will draw on the knowledge and longstanding intellectual mission of the New School for Social Research, with its founding in 1919, its University in Exile of 1933, and with its Democracy Seminar of the 1980s and 1990s. As in The New School’s past, Democracy Seminar 2.0 will serve a general scholarly and public purpose, and also seek to inform public policy and political strategies." …

Towards a World Wide Committee of Democratic Correspondence

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Imagine: a world wide network of democrats comparing their experiences, debating about the nature of the new authoritarian threat and the character of the new authoritarian leaders. They would examine how the new authoritarianism is changing their lives. They would critically consider and analyze th

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About 500 people came to Washington DC from different states to march from the White House to the Capital demanding that they be allowed to stay in the United States. February 12 was a cold and rainy day. …

Immigrants Demand Permanent Residency

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About 500 people came to Washington DC from different states to march from the White House to the Capital demanding that they be allowed to stay in the United States. February 12 was a cold and rainy day. Most of them came here under Temporary Protected Status from 13 different countries.

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Although I’ve had plenty of criticism from conservatives and libertarians who often willfully misread the book to present me as some crazy Stalinist, it’s the careful critiques from the left that are the most devastating because they come from people who I think might be allies. …

Socialism and the Future of Gender Justice: Part 2

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On August 12, 2017, Kristen Ghodsee published an op-ed in the New York Times, titled “Why Women Had Better Sex under Socialism.” The piece was due to appear in print a few days later, but the editors published the online version on that date. Coincidentally, the late night of August 11th and the…

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