Norman G. Finkelstein The intent of the statement is not to discourage what is “controversial.” Controversy is at the heart of the free academic inquiry which the entire statement is designed to foster. 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure On March 22,...
It was one of those gray winter mornings when it was easy to forget the wonder of it all: that I live in New York City (for the third consecutive year, God, how time flies!), that I have a place of my own in the Upper West Side of Manhattan (or “a room of my own,” rather, like...
Across the country ‘Cover the Uninsured Week,’ observed April 23 through April 29, will serve as a platform to debate, discuss, and demand health insurance coverage for the uninsured. Much media attention was garnered on the issue last year, as reports indicated that 47...
Book Review: Metapolitics, by Alain Badiou (Verso Books, 2006). 2005 marked the long overdue publication of English translations of Alain Badiou’s magnum opus, Being and Event (1988), and his more recent “little red book,” Metapolitics (1998). In the spring of that...
Book Review: To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (Ithaca: Cornell U Press, 2006, 233 pages) There was an element of abolitionism, neither insignificant nor ignoble, which had less to do with black folk a thousand miles...
