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Education

The Media, the New Authoritarianism and Its Alternatives

On Teaching, Once Again, in the Democracy and Diversity Institute in Poland, syllabus included

July 3, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This is the 26th year of The New School’s Democracy and Diversity Institute. I have participated in just about all of them. One year, my father was gravely ill and I had to bug out. Recently, I have missed a few years, as I have been following a promise to ...

The Media, the New Authoritarianism and Its Alternatives

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In the Wake of the Manchester Attack

Terrorism’s assault on the young

June 20, 2017 • by Walied Ali

On the 22nd of May 2017, the city of Manchester in the United Kingdom became the new front line of the war against terror. At the conclusion of a concert by American singer, Ariana Grande, a 22 year old suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of the Manchester ...

Education

What Hannah Arendt Really Wants

Reclaiming Space for the Vita Activa

May 5, 2017 • by Nuri Can Akin

There is an obvious reason why people in the U.S. have started to read George Orwell, Sinclair Lewis, Vaclav Havel, and Hannah Arendt again.[1] I must admit I share their concern: From the very first actions of the Trump administration, it became clear that the country has taken an authoritarian ...

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Putin May Have Bombed His Own Metro

It is not unthinkable. He’s done it before.

April 19, 2017 • by Jordan Luber

There was a vile terrorist attack in Russia on April 3rd, 2017. Some coward who believes his cause is greater than human life put a bomb on a metro car. It exploded while the car was in transit, passing between two of the busiest stations in St. Petersburg. A blast ...

Democracy

Aristotelian Reflections on President Trump’s Unauthorized Missile Strikes in Syria

The opposite of cowardice is rashness, and courage the mean between

April 8, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

Earlier in the same work, while concluding his general discussion of virtue and vice, Aristotle refers to the famous story of Odysseus facing the original “rock and a hard place” dilemma. Odysseus knows that he has no choice but to pass through the middle of the whirlpool and a ferocious ...

Aristotelian Reflections on President Trump’s Unauthorized Missile Strikes in Syria

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Totalitarianism

Historical Regime or Bio-Power Intimate Vocation?

February 28, 2017 • by Simona Forti

Coined in 1923 by Giovanni Amendola -- a strong opponent of Mussolini’s fascism -- the term has had a very interesting history. I retraced the genealogy of the concept, from Carl Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinki[1] in the first half of the 1950s, to Norman Davies[2] at the end of the ...

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GTMO Is Open for Business

Be Afraid!

February 15, 2017 • by Jeremy Varon

On February 13, Republican Senators begged Trump in a joint letter to issue the order. Exceeding even its harsh terms, their letter called for the suspension of GTMO’s Periodic Review Boards (PRBs). First convened in 2013, the PRBs have cleared for release dozens of prisoners hitherto destined for indefinite detention ...

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Paris Terror Events and the Dramaturgies of the Aftermath

January 10, 2017 • by Public Seminar

Daniel Dayan is a fellow of the Marcel Mauss Institute (School of Advanced Study in the Social Sciences) and a professor at the Levinas European Institute. Dayan has been Research director at CNRS-Paris, and a visiting professor at Sciences-Po and the universities of Stanford, Geneva, Tel Aviv, and Oslo. He has also been an Annenberg scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and for many years a ...

Race

Donald’s Dick

A Man Against the Institutions

November 4, 2016 • by Roger Friedland

This election is about the sex of state. In the eyes of millions of his supporters, particularly the men who would make him President, America’s manhood is at stake. Donald Trump is running as an erect phallus, a sexually aggressive man who can break through the forms, crush our enemies ...

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Homonationalism, Heteronationalism and LGBTI Rights in the EU

August 31, 2016 • by Peter Drucker

This year’s pride marches in Europe have taken place under the shadow of a threat, compounded by the recent terrorist attacks in Western Europe (Paris, Brussels and now Germany) and the slaughter at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. We have been urged not to give in to fear, while at the ...

Homonationalism, Heteronationalism and LGBTI Rights in the EU

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Queer Reflections On A Summer Of Violence: Surviving Orlando Without Alibi

August 29, 2016 • by Ryan Gustafson

In a June 12, 2016, Op-Ed (“The Scope of the Orlando Carnage”) New York Times columnist Frank Bruni joined many pundits in cautioning against what he described as narrowly sectarian interpretations of the violence that was unleashed at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on the previous evening. “Let’s be ...