...s in donations. These donations oversaw programs that could better insure humanitarian aid delivery, operating through local Muslim grounds, and increase dialogue between schools of fiqh, hopefully encouraging dissent against radicalism. But donations have never recovered their pre-2001 levels as, although invasive practices have abated, people still fear scrutiny. All this suggests that the U.S. must be prepared to engage with Islam to engage wi...
...rist”. Although he takes a radical, Marxist approach, Zizek’s conjectures still contained grains of truth that could be appreciated by everyone regardless of political background. Furthermore, in representing ideas of extreme radicalism, Zizek forces us all to bring into question our own political ideals and, most importantly, to defend them. This idea was made evident by the panel portion that followed Zizek’s initial presentation. In this sec...
...nmentalism has fostered among some of its adherents a longing to withdraw from the society that is the source of all our ecological woes, rather than restructure society in order to remedy them. Since the decline of political radicalism among modern environmentalists in the 1970’s, this apolitical element has become dominant, and remains so today. Our image of environmentalism today consists more of organic farmers and wind turbine engineers than...
...and measured incremental change to society’s institutions and a general belief in the power of tradition and habit, would have likely, in my opinion, supported the gradualism of expanding Medicaid rather than the libertarian radicalism of Paul Ryan’s alternative health voucher proposal. For better or worse, social welfare programs like Medicare and Medicaid have become American “tradition and habit,” and our society is more stable when we choose...
Illustration by Amalia Rinehart Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine By Candace Lukasik: Among the Arab revolutions of the last year, there is one struggle for justice that has endured since 1948: The occupation of Palestine. The Arab Spring offers new hope for a shift in the Palestinian condition of dispossession, discrimination, and death. The Arab revolutions grew out of a sustained hope for freedom. Grassroots mass mobilization was th...
...Gitlin agreed with the upcoming tie between President Obama and the Occupy Wall Street movement, both in terms of the resonance with his populist message and the notion that conservatives will try to wrap Obama in the idea of radicalism, as they did by focusing on Bill Ayers in 2008. He said that the possibility of “dramatic confrontations” pose a problem for Obama in this respect, especially given the possibility of protests at the highly visibl...
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