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    The Catalan Crisis and Podemos

    As I file these comments on Wednesday, November 15th, the Catalan crisis is unfolding toward its next critical moment, the December 21st election of a new regional Parliament. ...

    On November 27, 2017 / By John McClure
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    Letter from Barcelona: To Vote or Not to Vote —That was the Referendum Question

    On October 1st, at precisely 11:26 in the morning, I voted “illegally” for the first time in my life. The event in question was a unilateral referendum in ...

    On November 27, 2017 / By Rafael Gómez-Moriana
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    The Calvert Street Boys

    The second day after I landed in Baltimore, two Teach For America teachers from my new school took me for a drive past the school where I would ...

    On November 27, 2017 / By Paige Vaccaro
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    Contested West: Identity and Citizenship in a Global Age

    I always ask my students, on the first day of our Western Civilization course, “what is the West?” Here’s what they tend to tell me: that the West ...

    On November 27, 2017 / By Molly J. Giblin
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    Coal, Guns, Freedom: Teaching Environmental Ethics to Aspiring Petroleum Engineers

    Climate change is real. While the President may or may not still believe that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by China, 97% of climate scientists agree that ...

    On November 27, 2017 / By Kristofer Petersen-Overton
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    Tate’s Queer Britain

    When it comes to celebrating Pride, there’s no place like London. Even for this New York City resident, Pride in London approached unmatched sublimity through its simultaneously extensive ...

    On November 27, 2017 / By Victoria Wiet
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    Borders and Bolsheviks

    Europe has long been a land of struggle and honey in the mind of the much-battered American left, and today Britain takes on that role. The Democratic Socialists ...

    On November 27, 2017 / By Barnaby Raine
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    The Shrine of Tears: A Peace Corps Memory

    By JOHN McCLURE “[The Kenya National Theater] is also known as the ‘Shrine of Tears’. It was so nicknamed for the mixed bag of fortunes that come to ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
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    Who Decides?

    By FRANCES NEGRÓN-MUNTANER Last June 11, the government of Puerto Rico held what turned out to be not only the island’s fifth political status consultation but also its most ill-fated ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
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    Fuck These Postmodern Writers: Meena Kandaswamy’s Depiction of Atrocity

    By ASHIK KUMAR In Tanjavur — the “Rice Bowl” of Tamil Nadu, India’s southernmost state — the many castes of Hindus are split into three groups: Brahmin, non-Brahmin, ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Issue #15
  • Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist?
  • Capitalism, Racism and Totality: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • The Answer Is No: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • Coddled?
  • Our Benevolent Feudalism
  • On Refugee Literature and the Art of Giving a Fuck
  • Zanzibar in Ivoryton
  • Figures of Catastrophe

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