Faculty News
Faculty member Erika Mijlin was quoted in an article called "Sanders claims most 'likes' in congress," which appeared in the Times Argus this week.
In an address to Congress on November 29, Vermont Senator Leahy praised the work of the Arava Institute, of which Michael Cohen is one of the founding faculty members.
Robert Ransick was involved in Letters from Home, in which residents of Queens sent postcards to remind the president-elect that the borough where he spent his formative years is one of the most ethnically-diverse places on earth. The project, organized by The Center for Artistic Activism with the help of the Queens Museum, was covered in Hyperallergic.
In November, Public Seminar, an on-line forum hosted by the New School for Social Research, posted an opinion piece by David Anderegg called "From A Despised Elitist." The forum promotes work that confronts "the pressing issues of the day and fundamental problems of the human condition." In the article, Anderegg discusses the liberal/conservative divide from a psychological perspective.
On November 17, 2016, CounterPunch published a piece by faculty member John Hultgren on "The Working Class, Reconsidered."