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Patriotism, Nationalism, Exceptionalism

August 1, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

Over the past fortnight, two very different versions of patriotism were put on display. One of them was xenophobic, hostile, and downright plug-ugly. The other was hopeful, inclusive, and cheerful. Even though the media-saturated presentations of each were designed to “sell” a prepackaged vision of the political community known as ...

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Letter from an Offspring of the Spanish Civil War

July 19, 2016 • by Vladimir Tismaneanu

In more than one way, I am an offspring of the Spanish Civil War. Both my parents were there, fighting with the International Brigades. My mother, born on July 25, 1915, a Med School student in Bucharest, worked as a nurse at the International Hospital in Barcelona and Vic. In ...

Letter from an Offspring of the Spanish Civil War

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20th Century European Lessons for a 21st Century Brexit

July 18, 2016 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

It seems that June 23rd 2016 has become a new “zero hour” moment in European history, though I doubt it will go down in history as one next to November 9th 1989 or May 8th 1945. ...

20th Century European Lessons for a 21st Century Brexit

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The Two Faces of Post Modern Barbarism: A Response to the Massacre in Nice

July 15, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This morning, after the latest terrorist atrocity in Nice, one of the loveliest of places, I was imagining embarking on a new book project entitled “The Two Faces of Post Modern Barbarism.” The book would draw on Hannah Arendt’s analysis of totalitarianism and her accounts of modern barbarism, tyranny and ...

The Two Faces of Post Modern Barbarism: A Response to the Massacre in Nice

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Democracy Then and Now

July 13, 2016 • by Elzbieta Matynia

Elzbieta Matynia's reflections on one of the great projects of The New School for Social Research, marking the twentieth five years of the Democracy and Diversity Institute in Poland. We worked together on this even before the Institute was established, working with independent intellectuals, academics and activists in the Democracy ...

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Gianni Vattimo Interview

July 11, 2016 • by Claudio Gallo

Gianni Vattimo is considered to be among the most important living European philosophers, alongside Charles Taylor, and Jürgen Habermas. Known for his interpretation of Nietzsche's and Heidegger's philosophies, he also developed a postmodern theory he calls "weak thought," meant to question the hard objectivity of claims in religion, politics, and ...

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Brexit Spawns An Unfortunate Hashtag

July 6, 2016 • by H. Howell Williams

I went to sleep on Thursday, June 23 on a continent, and I woke up Friday on an island. The country that I had lived in for three years, a place that had begun to feel like home, had voted to leave the European Union. And while friends, family members, ...

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Reflections: Before and After the Brexit Referendum

July 1, 2016 • by Anonymous

A colleague shared his impromptu reflections on Brexit, both before and after the referendum last Thursday. Before Regarding Brexit, basically I think “a plague on both your houses” -- nationalists and liberals. But for now more a plague on the Tory “Leave” side, so severe is the noxious brew that’s been ...

Reflections: Before and After the Brexit Referendum

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After the Brexit Vote: Federations, Federal States or Back to the Bad Past?

June 29, 2016 • by Andrew Arato

The electorate of the United Kingdom has voted for an exit from the European Union, suggesting that we may now have to rethink everything on the question of federations. Thus this follow up on my last post. The good news for me is that nothing in my original piece requires fundamental ...

After the Brexit Vote: Federations, Federal States or Back to the Bad Past?

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The Thelma-and-Louise-Gambit

June 28, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

Your car is not working. In fact it is falling apart: it eats up gas, burns oil, grinds the transmission, and wobbles its wheels. You have been taking the car to a mechanic whom you have known for years. He charges a small fortune, and typically, within a week or ...

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Voting Dangerously: Britain, Europe, and the United States

June 27, 2016 • by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

Back in 2015, the French woke up having to mobilize against the threat of Marine Le Pen’s National Front party, infamously nationalist and anti-immigrant, after its overwhelming victory in the first round of regional elections in 2015. Earlier that year, Poles elected a president endorsed by the Law and Justice ...

Voting Dangerously: Britain, Europe, and the United States

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Refugee Movements and the Crisis of Europe

Theoretical Interventions

June 24, 2016 • by Silje Kristine Anderson

This panel discussion probes this crisis from a theoretical perspective and discusses its political implications by asking: What follows from this crisis for the European project, the paradoxes of international law, the role of the nation-state, and the resurgence of nationalism? And how does the emergence of new political practices and subjectivities ...