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Listening to Nixon Fall

A Watergate Summer

March 2, 2017 • by Douglas Crimp

In the spring 1973, I learned that I had been awarded a three-thousand-dollar Art Critics Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. It was only the second round of NEA fellowships for individuals and my third year of writing criticism, so I considered myself incredibly lucky. Three thousand dollars ...

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Trumpism

How Should the Left Respond?

February 27, 2017 • by David Maddy

The Democratic Party has lost the Presidency, majority control of Congress, and an alarming number of state governorships and legislatures. In contrast, the Republican Party seems poised to ideologically control the remaining branch of federal government through the appointment of a Supreme Court judge. With the Democratic Party flat on ...

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“Focus on the Issues, Not on Trump?” NOT!

How the Trump Administration is waging war against the Media

February 25, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

The right-wing version of this, expressed by conservative MSNBC talk-show host Joe Scarborough but also by his MSNBC colleague Chuck Todd, goes something like this (I paraphrase): “Trump’s antics are distracting him from attending to the substantive policy issues of his campaign. He is needlessly making enemies of the press, ...

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McCarthyism

An American Analog to Trumpism

February 23, 2017 • by Barbara Falk

Without denying the relevance of the European experience, however, I want to suggest there is plenty in U.S. history powerfully instructive to the present moment. When the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed in 1798, and again following World Wars I and II during the first and second “Red Scares,” ...

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Trump and his Recent Denunciation of Anti-semitism

11 Theses

February 21, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

2. This is a very bad thing for Jewish-Americans, for minorities of all kinds, for all citizens who care about the rights of individuals and the importance of constitutional democracy, and for all human beings who care about human dignity and respect. 3. It is imperative that this anti-semitism is denounced ...

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Responding to Neo-Fascism (Part 2)

Full-bodied Democratic Power Six Theses for a Robust Resistance to Trumpian Fascism

February 21, 2017 • by Romand Coles and Lia Haro

Whereas much grassroots democratic politics often resembles Nietzsche’s sarcastic image of a huge mouth on a feeble stick of a body with atrophied senses, we need to cultivate a robust, full-bodied politics. Radical politics is often represented today by a bullhorn in the hands of a protester speaking truth ...

Education

The False Premises of Alt-Right Ideology

Academics must understand how the Alt-Right sees the world if we are to resist it

February 20, 2017 • by Rachel McKinney

Adequately understanding the alt-right ideology requires us to see how it is different from other strains of racism, how it is different from political frameworks that it might seem superficially similar to (e.g. Marxist critique) and how it understands and responds to the left’s own narratives, frameworks, and discourse. Once ...

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Peddling Acquiescence as Unity

Exploring the complexity of empathic communication in the face of Trump

February 19, 2017 • by Laura Hooberman

Alongside the article’s publication, the Times’s political podcast The Run Up announced a three-episode series called “Dialogues” in which pairs of family and friends -- one Trump voter and one Clinton voter per episode -- would pose these questions to one another. Perhaps not unsurprisingly the dialogues, resting on necessarily ...

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Tyrant, Demagogue, or Fascist

Which archetype fits President Trump?

February 19, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

In order to see which archetype most closely fits the public persona of candidate and now President Trump, it is helpful to look at historical figures with whom these types are traditionally associated. In an analysis of Trump the candidate published by the Washington Post last February in advance of ...

Education

Keep the Doors of American Universities Wide Open

A Letter from the President of the New School

February 16, 2017 • by David Van Zandt

With one signature, President Trump threatened the fundamental premise upon which America’s excellent universities, and indeed our country, has been built. The recent Executive Order banning entry into the United States by refugees, immigrants and citizens from seven predominantly Muslim nations is antithetical to the core values of inclusion and ...

Democracy

What is Political Resistance?

An exploration of the word and its political connotations

February 16, 2017 • by William E. Scheuerman

Resistance now serves as a useful catch-all phrase for a diverse collection of individuals and groups outraged by our reactionary president and his allies in Congress. The term’s popularity rests on the sound shared intuition that the only way to stop Trump’s relentless Twitter-powered presidency is by no less relentless ...

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The Politics of Disclosure

Trump’s Dangerous Authoritarianism

February 16, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Now this question has come out into the open, and certain facts have reached the light of day. Extensive investigative reporting by the Washington Post, New York Times, and other media outlets has shown that: Trump’s National Security Adviser, Mike Flynn, already known to have extensive ties to Putin, had numerous ...