The Group of 20 Summit protests in Pittsburgh this past September were a threshold event. Not only were protesters detained and beaten by the police, but they were also subjected to new military-grade technologies that have pushed the boundaries of what kinds of actions are...
In early January the BBC reported that Mohammad Bouazazi, a Tunisian college graduate who illegally sold fruits and vegetables in Sidi Bouzid, had died from his self-inflicted burns. He had set himself on fire by dousing his body with petrol when poli ce confiscated his...
“Underlying recent attacks on the university is an attempt not merely to counter dissent but to destroy it and, in doing so, to eliminate all of those remaining public spaces , spheres, and institutions that nourish and sustain a democratic civil society” —Henry Giroux The...
Tony Kushner’s latest play, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Guide to the Scriptures opened this month in New York to critical acclaim. But praise for Kushner, whom many consider the greatest living American playwright, was drowned out by outrage...
The buzz since the CUNY Board of Trustees’ increasingly infamous meeting that tabled John Jay College’s nomination to award an honorary degree to Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner has been remarkable, for a few reasons. The speed with which the news spread and the...
