Blog

Complete listing of all 262 posts from The New Polis.

Adam Smith

The following is an interview The New Polis conducted in May 2018 with Joshua Ramey. It largely concerns his influential...

11 June 2018 Roger Green

Cynicism

Translated by Rachel Thomas. Edited by Carl Raschke. The following is the first part of a series of translated fragments...

05 June 2018 thenewpolis

Cultural Revivalism

The following is the first of a two-part series. Author’s note: This piece has been written as part of a bibliographic...

25 May 2018 Contributing Editor

Critical Theory

Elliot Neaman closes his book, Free Radicals: Agitators, Hippies, Urban Guerrillas, and Germany’s Youth Revolt of the...

21 May 2018 Roger Green

Alissa Rubin

The editors of The New Polis have gathered below excerpts and summaries of some of the most significant reflections and...

19 May 2018 thenewpolis

Civil Rights Movement

Recently scholars have begun to consider various ways that the work of Michel Foucault and James Baldwin might converge....

12 May 2018 thenewpolis

Communism

May 1968 was known in France as l’eventement, or “the event.” It was compared to the French uprisings of 1789, 1830,...

04 May 2018 thenewpolis

Dalit Castes

A dialect is defined as a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a region or social group. Yet what exactly...

01 May 2018 Contributing Editor

Charles Degaulle

As many people watch the unfolding of events concerning historic meetings between leaders from North Korea, South Korea,...

29 April 2018 Roger Green

Bartolome De Las Casas

The following is the second installment of Roger Green’s article. The first installment can be found here. In my...

21 April 2018 Roger Green