Freedom’s Dystopia
by Brian Hamilton • Abraham Lincoln is praised for nothing if not his pragmatism. It is, many claim, what helped him become the Great Emancipator. To historian James McPherson, Lincoln ...
Lockup America
by Simon Balto • Roughly 35,000 Wisconsin citizens will go to sleep tonight behind bars. That’s somewhere between the populations of Manitowoc and Brookfield, or, if you’ve been to a ...
Dreaming of Black Presidents
by Stephen Kantrowitz • The dream of a postracial nation which lushly flowered with Barack Obama’s election now seems faint and faded: the 2012 presidential campaign witnessed the continuing fantasy ...
Conversations on Psychoanalysis
by Anna Vitale • It’s obvious that psychoanalysis is not for everyone—both in terms of being an analysand or patient, and in its use for shaping research questions. But why ...
Lincoln Slept Here
by Jesse J. Gant • Last week, University of Southern California historian Richard Wightman Fox offered a preview of the University of Wisconsin’s upcoming Emancipations: The End of American Slavery ...
Finding Meaning in the Absence of Crumbs
by Anna Zeide • When Marcel Proust dipped his madeleine into a cup of tea, a work of literature emerged. When my students dipped their own madeleines into cups of ...
60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, and “The New Ethics of Life”
by Kata Beilin • The leading story in the New York Times on February 19th “60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked” could be read as a screenplay of a new ...
Preferential Admissions at UW: Equal Opportunity or Unfair Discrimination?
by Dan Hausman • Like many of my colleagues in the philosophy department, I have been disturbed by the low level of public discourse in the United States, whether it ...
The State of the Union, the University, and the Humanities
by Megan Massino • The humanities were notably absent from President Obama’s remarks on higher-education in last night’s State of the Union Address. Reading the institutional death of the humanities into ...
Living Up to the Accolades – the TAA Accepts Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award
by Kristine Mattis • On Friday February 11, newly anointed Governor Scott Walker attempted to surreptitiously introduce a “Budget Repair Bill” to the Wisconsin legislature which would all but do ...
