Welcome to the Academic Freedom at CUNY blog. We’ve been covering the recent situation of political purging at Brooklyn College and any related news since Friday, January 28. Most recent updates will appear at the top with a EST stamp. Day...
Not one to shy away from controversy, the outspoken and acerbic political cartoonist Ted Rall (best known for his take down of 9/11 widows and football-playing war heroes) has recently published a new book, Anti-American Manifesto with Seven Stories Press, in which he urges the reader to...
Imaginal Machines by Stevphen Shukaitis. Autonomedia (2009).At every level, Imaginal Machines is a subversive text. Against the rising tide of complacency, Stephven Shukaitis sketches out new possibilities for political engagement that are at once seditious and savvy.
A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors. Belknap Press (2009).A book as long and as rich as A New Literary History of America cannot have justice done to its many individual essays in the space of a single review. Nevertheless, highlights from the volume fairly leap out every twenty or thirty pages or so, begging especial mention
Who are the CUNY Board of Trustees and what is their role in the governance of the university? The Board of Trustees of the City University of New York is made up of exactly seventeen members. Of these seventeen, ten of the members are appointed by the governor, with only perfunctory...
