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On Being Receptive: Listening and Compliance on a University Campus
ABSTRACT How should you listen when you hear about harms in interpersonal life, such as sexual harassment or anti‐Black racism? Across a range of sites on a university campus, from bystander intervention workshops to reporting systems for sex‐ and gender‐based misconduct, we spotlight the way “listening” is mobilized to address harms of various kinds ...
Michael Lempert +2 more
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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Adopted in 1920, the Hungarian Numerus Clausus law introduced a mechanism to keep Jews out of universities by screening all applicants as to whether or not they were Jewish, either by religion or by birth.
Mária M. Kovács
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The Leaner, Meaner State—And What It Means for Society
ABSTRACT Populism is an old phenomenon but one which appears to once again be in ascendance globally. Attributing a nation's problems to a wicked elite, populists seek to dismantle the old order and either remove or repurpose its institutions. This paper explores how populism changes economic governance and particularly, how its emphasis on fighting ...
Christopher A. Hartwell
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Did Antisemitism in Public Opinion Rise in the Wake of the Israel–Hamas War?
Israel’s military response in Gaza to Hamas’s terrorist attack and hostage taking of 7 October 2023 has led to fears of growing antisemitism. Indications of heightened antisemitism include massive spikes in antisemitic incidents and hate crimes around ...
Jeffrey E. Cohen
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ABSTRACT In this commentary, we foreground the dilemmas that arise when ethics and politics clash. Taking the Yiddish‐language poem Khurbn Aze [lit. The Destruction of Gaza] as our entry point, we argue that Stroud's sociolinguistic notion of linguistic citizenship together with Levinas's moral philosophy can offer a productive theoretical lens for ...
Hannah Lukow, Tommaso M. Milani
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As the British sociologist Robert Fine critically observed, it could seem as if “antisemitism is tucked away safely in Europe’s past, overcome by the defeat of fascism and the development of the European Union antisemitism is remembered, but only as a ...
Wodak, Ruth
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Similar moral values, different agendas: U.S. politicians' use of moral language is issue‐specific
Abstract We used Structured Topic Models (STM) combined with a word embedding model to examine U.S. politicians' use of moral language and identify the issues Democrats and Republicans moralize most on X (formerly Twitter). Analyzing 1,578,057 posts from U.S.
Éloïse Côté +2 more
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The One Lonely Little Guy Versus Thousand Lobbyists: George H. W. Bush and the American Jews
ABSTRACT This article reconsiders the strained relationship between President George H. W. Bush and the American Jewish community during the early 1990s, focusing on the controversy surrounding Israel's request for US loan guarantees and Bush's September 1991 “lonely little guy” remark.
David Tal
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