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The Right’s Walls and the Left’s Commons

Critical reflections on the long – running clash between left and right

December 16, 2016 • by Todd Gitlin

In a knife-edge election, many are the causes that tip the balance between victory and defeat. Politics is, as Branch Rickey memorably said of baseball, “a game of inches.” Minor changes in a campaign scenario produce major differences. Surely Donald Trump’s victory derived in no small part from his appeal ...

The Right’s Walls and the Left’s Commons

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Is There a Crisis of Democracy?

The Rise of Trump-like Figures in Democracies

December 15, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

There is a very interesting debate taking place between Yascha Mounk and Roberto Stefan Foa and Erik Voeten on Monkey Cage and Wonkblog. According to Mounk and Foa: “Public attitudes toward democracy... have soured over time. Citizens, especially millennials, have less faith in the democratic system. They are more likely to ...

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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 ...

Confronting Trump

Twenty Twentieth Century European Lessons for Americans to Consider

December 4, 2016 • by Timothy Snyder

I only today came upon this instructive and provocative Facebook post, first posted on November 15th. Here the author of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, warns us to carefully consider our presumptions about American exceptionalism and suggests lessons to be considered. -Jeff Goldfarb Americans are no wiser than ...

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Renzi’s Right Way

Italy’s Constitutional Reform Vote

December 3, 2016 • by Franco Palazzi and Moreno Stambazzi

On Dec. 4th, Italian citizens will cast their ballot to approve or reject a vast Constitutional reform firmly put forward by the so-called "center-left" government headed by Mr. Matteo Renzi. If the votes in favor prevail, a third of the articles of the Italian main law will change. This would ...

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Hungary 1956

Sixty Years After

December 2, 2016 • by Virág Molnár

In a 1958 article “Totalitarian Imperialism: Reflections on the Hungarian Revolution,” published in the Journal of Politics and intended as an update to her seminal Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt called the Hungarian uprising of 1956 a “spontaneous revolution”: a rare occurrence that erupted unexpectedly, without a preceding and destabilizing ...

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Marx’s Radical Development

Following Marx’s Train of Thought

November 16, 2016 • by Aaron Jaffe

There have been a few recent calls for a return to Marx, or openness to the thought that he “got it right.” To be sure, Marx got a lot -- a lot -- right, but simply peering into his writing desk -- as if setting things right for all time ...

Far-Right Über Alles

The Far Right Alignment of Trump, Putin, Orbán, Kaczynski, and Johnson

November 12, 2016 • by Tomasz Kitlinski

This article originally appeared on Souciant on November 10th 2016. A new global bromance has begun: Trump, Putin, Orbán, Kaczynski, Johnson. These powers that be, who now control the planet, could not be more xenophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-woman, anti-queer, and ultranationalist. How could we have ever allowed that to happen? We’re all ...

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Italian Constitutional Reform

The “Urgent” Solution to a Non-Existent Problem

October 24, 2016 • by Luca Baccelli

“The reform of the second part of the Constitution cannot wait any longer.” This sentence from the introductory report to the “Renzi-Boschi” Constitutional Bill (A.C. 2613 -- D) could sound quite odd to an American reader. In fact, the Italian Constitution, entered into force on January 1, 1948, has been ...

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New School Event: Jan Karski, the Man who Tried to Stop the Holocaust

October 15, 2016 • by Karolina Koziura

In the midst of World War II, Jan Karski, a courier for the Polish underground, bravely crossed the Warsaw Ghetto and Nazi transit camp in order to deliver eyewitness testimony about the situation of Jews in occupied Poland and carry his reports to the governments in the United Kingdom and ...

New School Event: Jan Karski, the Man who Tried to Stop the Holocaust

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How to Effectively Ban Abortion

On the Polish Black Monday Strike and its Consequences

October 6, 2016 • by Marianne Le Nabat

This week saw a massive mobilization of women in Poland (and elsewhere) against a proposed total abortion ban in the country. On Monday, women refused en masse to go to work or school, striking both economically and socially, in order to stop the proposal, which would have refused abortion to ...