Anthropology

On the Materiality and Spirituality
of Academic Work
How should academics think about
the value of labor? Some thoughts on
the benefits, both material and
spiritual, of thinking.

by Rachel Signer

 

ESSAY CONTEST WINNER!
The Freedom in Academic Freedom
Dissecting the concept of academic
freedom and American politics.

by Eric Taylor

 

Political Science & Economics

The Last Free Student in Corporate Academia
A peek inside the corporatized university, its ruling classes, and the dilemma of acronymization

by Geeti Das & Johann Jaeckel

Global Finance

What He Didn't Say...
The tragedy of American public education and
some questions about the Obama camp

by Brett Warnke

 

Grandiloquently and Clearly:
The Mind of the Scrawler
Profile of a New York City collector/curator
and his twenty-plus years of collecting
street "literature"

by Justin Wolf

Academic Monoculture: Kant, Freedom,
and the Challenge of Careerism
Free inquiry and the danger of
academic monoculture

by Justin Humphreys

 

If You're Reading This, There is a
Shred of Freedom Left
in the University
A day in the life of a New School graduate
student, and the bizarre benefits
of Academic Freedom

by Marika Josephson

 

Stony Point
Justice
Two poems that look at patterns and the
replacement of justice with judgment

by Theresa Morris

 

Total Terror and the Birth of a New Order
Addressing the pandemic of violence against
women throughout the world, and how
such acts are politicized

by Dechen Albero

 

PULSE
Cobwebs
Two new poems that explore the mysteries
of family, memory, and sickness

by Carlos Figueroa

A Delicate Resistance
Short story about an idealist professor who
learns his place in the corporate
academic machine

by Shaun Nanavati

 

Mentor Song
A poem of messages, graffiti, and a
"heaping mess"

by Ted Strauss

 

Nowhere
Vulnerability or Excavation
Two poems about the desperate search for a voice,
a place to speak, and the loss of freedom

by Jeff Purchla