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Benjamin Barber is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society at University of Maryland, College Park and the Principal and Director of the Democracy Collaborative. His most recent work is Fear’s Empire (Norton, 2003). For more information on his writings and activities, see his website www.benjaminbarber.org. Q: Professor Barber, perhaps you can give…
Read Full Article...Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. A member of the executive board of Logos, her most recent book is The War at Home (New Press, 2004). Q: Prof. Piven, you were one of the most prominent supporters of Ralph Nader’s last campaign. What do you…
Read Full Article...On January 23, 2019, the Lithuanian filmmaker, poet, critic, and curator, Jonas Mekas, passed away. Mekas arrived in the United States in 1949 after having spent years in forced labor camps in Nazi Germany and, following the War, displaced persons camps. He went on to help establish major institutions of American avant-garde cinema, including Anthology…
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