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The Coming Crisis in Healthcare and its Possible Solutions

An Open Letter to Colleagues at the New School and Beyond

January 1, 2017 • by Andrew Arato and Clara Mattei

The subjects we propose to consider are in the area of health policy, and the instruments are in the domain of federalism, to avoid misunderstanding, “progressive federalism,” meaning normatively attractive forms of experimentation on the level of the states. While we strongly believe that similar initiatives are needed in the ...

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The Armenian Violence Question

A Conversation on Means and Social Change

December 13, 2016 • by Tamar Shirinian and Nelli Sargsyan

How do we make sense of a general population's acceptance of militarization? We see the following conversation as an attempt to entangle and disentangle some of the complexities of this particular historical juncture in post-Soviet Armenia. In reflecting on the Armenian experience and on the larger process of postsocialism and ...

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Social Resistance

May We Rise

December 11, 2016 • by Jeremy Varon

I begin with the satisfaction of saying in public what so many of us have said in private: What a fucking nightmare! Like millions of others, my household on election night was one of inconsolable grief and rage. Within the seas of pain were especially heartbreaking scenes: immigrant and Muslim ...

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The Metamorphoses of the 2013 Brazilian Protests

December 9, 2016 • by Isleide Fontenelle

In June 2013, Brazilian cities were occupied by street demonstrations sparked by the protest against the increase in public transportation fares in the city of São Paulo. Over the course of weeks, these demonstrations grew, a vast array of claims was incorporated, and new types of protesters emerged, eventually taking ...

The Metamorphoses of the 2013 Brazilian Protests

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Can Art Save Us from Bullshit?

The Practice of Making Political Art that Works

December 8, 2016 • by Stephen Duncombe and Silas Harrebye

This essay is a version of a presentation given by the authors at the Public Calling conference, sponsored by the Fritt Ord Foundation & KURO/Public Art Norway, at the National Theatre in Oslo, Norway on 1 November 2016. Many years ago, there was an emperor so exceedingly fond of new clothes ...

Multi Media

On Public Seminar’s Post Election Teach In

A Workshop on Social Resistance

December 7, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

We must and will move beyond shock and despair, and toward creative action. This is what I took to be the major theme of our Post Election Teach In Workshop on Social Resistance. I helped organize the event, trying to be hopeful in the face of my own sense of ...

On Public Seminar’s Post Election Teach In

On Trump and Trumpism

8 posts in 1

November 30, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I am devastated. All of my public commitments are under attack. I thought there had been progress during my lifetime. Democracy and the positive developments of democratic culture, free speech and expression, social justice and the fight against racism, sexism, class exploitation, xenophobia, and much more, all seemed to advance, ...

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Politicizing and Practicing Motherhood

Why We Should Care What Phyllis Schlafly Served Her Kids for Breakfast

November 19, 2016 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

This article was originally posted at Process, the OAH blog, on October 18, 2016. “I’d like to burn you at the stake,” pioneering feminist Betty Friedan famously spat at conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly during a 1973 debate about the Equal Rights Amendment. Her loathing reflected the recognition of a formidable opponent. Though ...

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Authoritarianism and Civilization

Du Bois, Davis, and Trump

November 17, 2016 • by Neil Roberts

In 1890 the young W.E.B. Du Bois delivered the Harvard University Commencement address “Jefferson Davis as a Representative of Civilization.” Du Bois focused on a central figure of nineteenth-century America as he prophesied the meanings of freedom, democracy, and what American life -- or more accurately, civilization -- would look ...

Education

Proclaim The New School a Sanctuary Campus for Undocumented Students

An Open Letter to President Van Zandt and Provost Marshall

November 15, 2016 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso, Miriam Ticktin and Jonathan Bach

The result of the U.S. election cannot be understood in isolation from the global context of migration and refugee flows. Fear and ignorance about what causes people to leave their communities, and about the effects this has in the societies they join are at the core of xenophobic reactions and ...