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Essays
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The Shape of Ménage à Trois to Come
“However much desire there is for the threesome to maintain its stability, the cultural force of homogenous marriage is strong.”
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Toward a University of Repair
What was so unique about Haverford College that it was worth mocking in a Congressional hearing?
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Arendt’s Refugee Politics
One of Arendt’s most surprising insights is that professing “love for the X people” may be a way to foreclose on freedom and on humanity just as effectively as professing “hatred for the Y people.”
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After “Abortion”: A 1966 Book and the World That It Made
Before the book’s publication, no one, it seemed, wanted to talk about abortion publicly. But something changed with when the book finally arrived in 1966.
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Unhappy Halloween: “Disturbia” and the Endless Horror of Domestic Violence
Actor Shia LaBeouf got a real-life ending like that of his film character: Go continue to be a predator.
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Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance!
The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.
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This Is Not a Choice—It Is a Charge: How HBCUs Must Embrace Black Radical Love & Empower Queer and Trans* Students
This essay calls in HBCUs to recommit to Black queer and trans* inclusion.
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To Save Public Higher Ed, Stop Revering California’s Tiered System
Open admissions to all state-funded public universities could break the competitive concentration of prestige, increase affordability, and restore Americans’ faith in higher education.
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To Save Higher Ed, Seek Our Black and Hispanic Men
Policymakers and institutional leaders seeking to preserve higher education’s functionality should consider the enrollment and completion rates of Black and Hispanic men.
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Our Right to Our Union: Graduate Student Workers Under Threat
University leaders may make a show of opposing Trump when funding is under threat, but they will happily align themselves with him in confronting graduate student workers.
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Toward the Next American University: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Higher Ed
The path higher education was on before Trump’s reelection was neither certain nor stable. There is not much to go back to now.
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Young Almodóvar Versus Old Almodóvar in the World Series of Love
“In recent years, Almodóvar’s films have become more serious, moving away from the campy melodrama and drugged gazpacho we knew and loved him for, toward a mature reckoning with the bigger questions of existence.”
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B-Sides: Stendhal’s “Love”
Are you a banker or a manufacturer or an industrialist? If so, Stendhal doesn’t want you to read “Love”; you wouldn’t understand.
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How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers
A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.
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The History of Women’s Studies Is a History of Conflict
Women’s studies programs in the United States are threatened by authoritarian pressure. For example, the Ohio legislature restricts how marriage and abortion can be presented in the college classroom, while the Florida state government took over a public college and abolished its gender studies program. At the federal level, words including “gender” and “women” are…
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“No Future” Lexicon: Punk
To recognize, individually and collectively, that things are unfair, a mess, corrupted, defective does not denote an end only.
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“No Future” Lexicon: Darkness
Darkness often appears as a solely obscure and secondary trait of modernity; but, in truth, darkness impregnates and bolsters so densely modernity’s creative powers.
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“No Future” Lexicon: The Post-Post-Apocalyptic
But what lies beyond the end of the world? Casting off the trappings accreted by the post-apocalyptic genre emerge stories of the post-post-apocalyptic.
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“No Future”: A Lexicon
If the future hasn’t changed in the past, how could it possibly change now?
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Hijabs On the Small Screen Only, Please!
Why is hijabi representation divided between small-screen success and big-screen blunders?
