Give it Back! Getting New York’s Wealthiest to Pay Their Fair Share
by Advocate Staff
From the Editor “Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.” –Thomas Jefferson
“Hey baby, nobody suffers like the poor!” –Charles Bukowski
I know it’s difficult, especially for the majority of GC students facing several years […]
The General’s Labyrinth Revealed
by PInglis
Guest Editorial Patrick Inglis
Thomas Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center, and moderator of the recent panel discussion entitled “Military Power,” held in the Proshansky Auditorium, had asked General Barry McCaffrey (ret.) his thoughts on former military officers acting as analysts in the media. “I’m a determinably non-partisan commentator,” McCaffrey responded. As if […]
Naming the Problem
by Renee McGarry
Adjuncting RENEE McGARRY
They say when it hits the New York Times Sunday Style section you know the trend is over, and probably has been for at least a year. I have a distinct memory of such an event, the moment when the Style section did a photo essay on Doc Martens. I think it was 1995, and if I know the […]
Supply, Demand, and the Mexican Drug War
by Andrew Bast
Political analysis
ANDREW BAST
The war looks eerily familiar: beheadings, assassinations of police and public officials, terrorized businesspeople, extorted schoolteachers, and in five years more than 230 American civilians dead in the crossfire. All this could easily describe the battle in Afghanistan or Iraq, but the reality is closer to home, where an increasingly gruesome war is […]
Stop the Presses: Republicans Love CUNY
by Advocate Staff
In an effort to provide short-term relief to a budget under duress, Republican lawmakers in the New York State Senate have proposed a plan designed to attract students to CUNY and SUNY while they’re still in the cradle.
The plan, open to all children under the age of fourteen, offers parents the opportunity to lock-in future tuition costs […]
Hampshire College and the Politics of Divestment
by Advocate Staff
In 1977, Hampshire College became the first US institution of higher learning to divest from companies that did business with and helped to support apartheid South Africa. Shortly after this divestment, the college president and administration took steps to distance themselves from that landmark decision. Now, thirty-two years later, history is repeating itself.
Students for Justice […]
Academic Labor Under Siege: Towards a Politically Engaged Professionalism
by HGiroux
I do not believe that a student of human reality may be ethically neutral. The sole choice we face is one between loyalty to the humiliated and to beauty, and indifference to both. It is like any other choice a moral being confronts: between taking and refusing to take responsibility for one’s responsibility. – Zygmunt Bauman1
In his […]
Two Or Three Things I know about Him: Eeverything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc GodardBy Richard Brody (Metropolitan Books, 2008, 720 pages)
by M. Lau
Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Godard’s 1966 film inspired by newspaper accounts of bourgeois women taking up prostitution for the disposable income, contains one of my favorite scenes in all his movies. In it a young boy tells his mother Juliette (Marina Vlady) about a dream he’s had. “I was walking all alone along the […]
Nothing to Say: Hirschhorn’s Universal Gym
by CMatlin
I have always been suspicious of Swiss-born installation artist Thomas Hirschhorn’s art; it always strikes me as a little too easy. The blatant in-your-face qualities of his installations recall a petulant teenager who really wants to shake things up but can’t get out of his own way. Hirschhorn’s 2006 show Superficial Engagement, at Barbara Gladstone, was at […]
Four Plays are Better than Some
by Frank Episale
“I don’t know how you do it, Frank. Every time I look out at the theatre scene in this city, all I see is a lot of crap.” This statement was part of an email I received last summer while trying to decide what I would write about for an upcoming article. When I was an undergraduate, one of my professors […]
