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Podcast

Rudy Giuliani, Greta Thunberg, and Vaping

Episode 200

October 15, 2019 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Rudy Giuliani is most prominent today as a Trump surrogate, but after 9/11 he was known as “America’s Mayor.” Natalia recommended Ken Frydman’s New York Times op-ed about working for Giuliani and Matthew Yglesias’ Vox piece about his disregard for the rule of law.Scandinavian climate ...

Media

Fake News, Conspiracy Theories, and New Media

Plan Andinia and Anti-Semitism in Argentina

October 12, 2019 • by Emmanuel Guerisoli

Cuneo’s oral manifesto went viral across multiple platforms, such as What’s App, Facebook, YouTube, and endless email chains, sparking a public debate over Argentinean Jews’ sacred and exclusive loyalty towards Israel. Pro-Cuneo posts offered many cases of public figures, all of them Jewish, that were Mossad double agents or involved ...

Uncategorized

I Ain’t Gonna Work on Merritt’s Farm No More

A brief history of central California’s forgotten empire

October 11, 2019 • by Matthew Ford

In early 1949 as the shift away from wartime production slowed economic growth in the South, my great-grandparents (Glen and Lucille) began looking for new opportunities. Glen’s wartime jobs at a military training field and an ammunition factory in Oakridge Tennessee dried up, and he went back to tenant farming ...

Race

It’s Personal: Changing How White People Think About Racism

October 11, 2019 • by Marcia Ely

I’ve watched the movement to take history textbooks to task for their alarming kid gloves treatment of slavery. I shook my head following last year’s story about Texas finally updating its public school curriculum to teach the truth that slavery was the main cause of the Civil War. And I ...

Media

Could Turkey Just Be OK Again?

Media and the drift towards authoritarianism

October 10, 2019 • by Ergin Bulut

Liberals in the U.S. were -- and some still are -- shocked. The election of Trump devastated the liberals’ American dream. Trump’s grotesque political style revealed that the U.S. wasn’t as awe-inspiring as the liberals imagined it to be. And yet, hadn’t they just elected the nation’s first black President? ...

Past Present

Whistleblowers, Church Arsons, and Co-Working Spaces

Episode 199

October 8, 2019 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: An intelligence officer has filed a complaint regarding Donald Trump’s interactions with the president of Ukraine. We discussed the history of whistleblowing and Niki noted the role of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon papers in shaping contemporary ideas about whistleblowing. Natalia referenced the founding fathers’ ...

Education

Radical Teaching Then & Now

Complexities And Power, Justice and Equity Pre and Post 1968

October 4, 2019 • by Sarah Chinn

Of course, it’s all these things. Indeed, it’s hard to engage in radical teaching without engaging both the micro and the macro structures in both K-12 and higher education. After all, as Christopher Newfield argues in The Great Mistake, it’s hard to separate the disinvestment in public higher education from the ...

The New School

Listening to The New School

Why podcasts?

October 3, 2019 • by Julia Foulkes and Mark Larrimore

At the time we began this project, we also began work on a series of podcasts (available here). Our engagement with New School history already spans multiple genres -- a website, an exhibition, all manner of talks and the current seminar here -- in its effort to invite more and more ...

Podcast

Ukraine, Declining Bird Populations, and Luxury Parking

Past Present Episode 198

October 2, 2019 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Ukraine is at the center of the impeachment probe against the president. Niki referred to Peter Schweizer’s book Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich and to Zack Beauchamp’s Vox piece about how the Ukraine scandal changed his ...

Saving America’s Cities

Re-evaluating the complex history of urban renewal

October 1, 2019 • by Lizabeth Cohen

Too often the era of urban renewal is depicted as an abstract contest between unstoppable urban-growth machines and the defenseless communities that became their victims. Following the career of someone like Logue allows us to grapple with the agency, motives, and constraints on all sides and, most importantly, to understand ...

Growing Up With Bruce Springsteen

I wouldn’t be the man I am without him

September 30, 2019 • by Eric Alterman

To be honest, I don’t know how to sum up the role Springsteen has played in my life so far or even give it a coherent structure. Part of the problem is that I discovered Bruce when I was fifteen and I’m now fifty-nine. My understanding of the world and ...

Feature

On Postcolonial Remembering and Democratic Openings in Taiwan

An Interview with Former Political Prisoner, Fred Chin

September 26, 2019 • by Stephen J. Hartnett and Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge

Beginning with the infamous “228” massacres in the Spring of 1947, Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang (KMT) brutalized Taiwan with murder, torture, mass imprisonment, and relentless censorship -- this period has come to be known as the “White Terror.” The brave work of generations of activists led to the KMT finally lifting ...