Brandeis politics professor Jytte Klausen’s new book on the 2005 Danish Muhammed cartoon controversy has been selectively censored by its publisher, the Yale University Press. The New York Times reports today that Yale ordered the images of the actual cartoons to be removed from the book. Entitled The Cartoons That Shook The World, the book [...]
Turns out that Louis Brandeis will get his very own stamp. As a Louis Brandeis supporter, I am pleased with this decision. However, here’s some more exciting news: Melvin J. Urofsky is coming to Brandeis! Allow me to explain. Ever since I wrote a final paper on Louis Brandeis, I’ve realized how much of a [...]
Posted on: August 5th, 2009
Category: Beyond Brandeis, Break Blogging, Context and Connections, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Honesty, Jon, Protect the Powerless
While my introduction to Privilege Watch focused primarily on race, my first case file will also touch on sexism and Christian privilege. The latter is something that I feel I’m exceptionally sensitive to. As a Jewish atheist, public presumptions of faith, especially Christianity, are glaringly obvious to me in a way that it seems Christians [...]
Posted on: August 3rd, 2009
Category: Beyond Brandeis, Context and Connections, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Jon, Protect the Powerless
It seems that ever since Obama’s election, affluent white hetero Christians – by far the most economically and politically powerful bloc in the country, far beyond their real numbers – have suddenly been waking up in the middle of the night, screaming “Holy shit, I’m not nearly as privileged as I used to be!” Their [...]
Recent Brandeis grad Pat Garofalo went straight from editing the Hoot to working for the Center for American Progress. I hear you ask, “yeah, so what?” That job is so cool that Pat can interview the Senate Majority whip without breaking a sweat. Look:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGFXeNigz0&eurl[/youtube] Update: I’ve been thinking. To one-up the Hoot, I suggest that [...]
