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The world’s top 50 thinkers 2019
Prospect salutes the scientists, philosophers and writers reshaping our times—and asks for your help choosing our 2019 winners
Jason Stanley
I have had the immense good fortune to know @kate_manne for years. As an assistant professor she violated every rule of prudence to write Down Girl. She always chooses the hard path, the real world moral complexity. Philosophy at its best.
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‘Elite Schools Are National Treasures. Their Elitism Is What Makes Them Such.’
Anthony Kronman on the ‘aristocratic ethos’ in higher education.
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Jason Stanley
I need to read this article. But the title and subtitle are bs. Academia is about the constant production of often controversial scholarship, and using that scholarship in political debate in important times. The vocabulary of eliteness is a barrier.
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Jason Stanley: On the Question of the Stability of Democracy
After a divisive election, the question of democracy’s stability has again commanded public attention. What has philosophy said to this, one of our discipline’s foundational questions? Plato and Ar…
Jason Stanley
I published this piece on Dec. 1, 2016 in the Princeton Election Blog. The previous month I had sent it to @TheAtlantic (response: “we don’t do long think pieces on democracy like this”) and six other venues, rejected from all.
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How to Build an Autocracy
The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism.
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Jason Stanley
This is an excellent piece by @davidfrum. I published a largely overlapping piece in December 2016 in the Princeton Election blog. No venue, even The Atlantic, would take it
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Event: Bryant Park Non-Fiction Authors: 'How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them' at Reading Room in Bryant Park
7/24 7pm | American history as seen through the eyes of preeminent authors. Jason Stanley discusses his new book 'How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.'
Jason Stanley
Bryant Park Non-Fiction Authors: 'How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them' - Jul 24, 2019 : NYC Parks nycgovparks.org/events/2019/07… via @nycparks
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#WVBus: Detroit Activists Push City to End Water Shutoffs
Chicago's mayor announced an end to municipal water shutoffs in May. Activists in Detroit are pushing their city to do the same thing.
Regular guest: Jason Stanley
Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was Distinguished Profess...
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Is Providing Moral Cover for the Worst of America
Comparing the Trump administration’s immigration actions to past atrocities isn’t disrespecting the Holocaust. It’s taking “never again” to heart.
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Jason Stanley
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum makes a mockery of “never again.” Vital piece by @TimothyDSnyder - please read and share.
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Jason Stanley
Retweeting @TimothyDSnyder powerful condemnation of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Press release rejecting all analogies to the Holocaust. Must read. Definitive.
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Exclusive: Rescue workers in Syria apparently targeted by multiple airstrikes, investigation finds
Footage obtained by Channel 4 News appears to show so-called ‘double-tap’ airstrike in Idlib province, with rescuers hit in follow-up attack.
America’s Captive Labor | by Michael Poyker
Many Americans may assume that the country’s convict-labor system is a thing of the past, especially given unflattering media coverage of other countries’ reliance on prison labor to produce export goods. But in 2005 – the most recent year for which...
LRB · Adam Tooze · Which is worse?: Germany Divided
This year is both the 70th anniversary of the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. For years Germany has been thought of as both the pace-setter and the anchor of European politics....
Jason Stanley
Terrific piece by @adam_tooze on recent German Party party. Even if you have been following the bewildering array of coalitions, this puts it all together and in context.
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Asymmetry between the major parties fries the circuits of the mainstream press
And five other ideas I use to interpret campaign coverage this year.
What the history of concentration camps tells us about what will happen next in the border crisis
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sparked a contentious debate when she compared conditions in migrant detention centers to concentration camps. But Andrea Pitzer, author of “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps,” says the comparison...
The American Dark Money Behind Europe’s Far Right
Along with Marine le Pen in France, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Italy’s Matteo Salvini is leading a startling resurgence of Europe’s far right. Across the continent, the messaging of these right-wing populists is increasingly slick, their party machines...
U.S. Prepares to Arrest Thousands of Immigrant Family Members
Some of those targeted might end up being held in hotel rooms until their travel documents can be prepared. ICE’s goal is to deport the families as quickly as possible.
Jewish Activists Arrested After Protesting Migrant Detention on Capitol Hill
In Washington, D.C., 18 Jewish activists with the group Never Again Action were arrested on Capitol Hill Tuesday as they protested against the jailing of migrants and called on lawmakers to shut down the detention camps and defund ICE and...
David Blight appointed Sterling Professor
Blight is a renowned historian who is considered one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the Civil War and its legacy.
A cruzada moral do bolsonarismo é uma batalha perdida
Datafolha mostra que novas gerações são mais progressistas.
Jason Stanley
O bolsonarismo trava uma guerra perdida: as novas gerações não engolem a agenda moralista interc.pt/2XvAdS8 por @_pinheira
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