On the Ankara Massacre
It’s Inequality, Stupid! Hillary Clinton at the New School on the Economy
Sociology vs. Market Fundamentalism
Chiara Bottici’s General Seminar Lecture: Rethinking the Biopolitical Turn
A Dialogue between Richard Rottenburg and Richard Bernstein on Critique and Hope
Jeffrey Goldfarb
Richard Rottenburg on Anthropology, Critique and Hope
The Theodor Heuss Lecture
O.O.P.S. vs M.O.O.C.s: Midterm Report, Part 2
The O.O.P.S. courses Rethinking Capitalism and Feminism, Capitalism and Social Transformation share a critical understanding: capitalism, as we are experiencing it, is undesirable and not the only political economy possible. They also both analyze how major social problems are directly linked to the present order of capitalism, from ...
Andreas Kalyvas on the Critical Situation in Greece and Europe
A conversation with Jeffrey Goldfarb
Andreas Kalyvas and I sat down the other day to discuss the situation of Greece and Europe. He and I have been talking about politics for years, in Wroclaw, in Johannesburg, in New York. We understand each other as we differ. He is a leftist, committed to radical transformation. I ...
O.O.P.S. vs M.O.O.C.s: Midterm Report, Part 1
“The proponents of M.O.O.C.s (Massive Open Online Courses) look for the magic bullet, hoping to find a technological solution to the crisis in education. The O.O.P.S. (Open Online Public Seminar) project is to use the new technology, the potential of the web, to extend education’s promise.”
With these words, I closed ...
Hannah and Me: Understanding Politics in Dark Times
Contrary to the suggestion of my informal title, I did not study with Hannah Arendt, nor were we ever colleagues, although I missed both experiences only by a bit. I was a graduate student in the early 1970s in one of the universities where she last taught, the University of ...