Telos 207: Politics and the University

Just as we cannot keep a sense of right and wrong out of the way we view the world, politics will always implicitly or explicitly determine the goals of our educational institutions by setting the mission of universities through a particular value orientation. Telos 207 explores the ways in which politics affect what happens at universities through the lens of both current academic research in China and the recent protests on U.S. campuses over the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the wake of October 7, 2023.

Politics and the University

Introduction
David Pan

Is Communist China a New Type of Civilization? The Civilizational Argument in Contemporary Chinese Ideology
Alexander Lukin

Understanding Chinese Political Study: Historical and Fieldwork Political Study Revisited
Rongxin Li

Contemporary American Academe before and after October 7, 2023

Introduction to the Special Section on Contemporary American Academe before and after October 7, 2023: Uncritical Theory and Antisemitic Semiotics
Gabriel Noah Brahm

Palestine Avenue
Andrei S. Markovits

The End of the Academy as We Knew It
Andrew Pessin

In Our Name: A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia University
Eliana Goldin, Elisha Baker, Rivka Yellin, and Eden Yadegar

The Prospects for Higher Education after October 7
Russell A. Berman

The Return of the Two Cultures in the Israel–Hamas War Protests
Peter C. Herman

The Columbia University Encampment: Joseph Massad, Peter Beinart, and the Future of Campus Antisemitism
Cary Nelson

What Is Islamo-Leftism? Its Origins and Current Developments
Pierre-André Taguieff

Reforming Higher Education
David Pan

Postcolonial Activism: An Infantile Disorder
Julius Bielek

The Jewish Body and the Trans Community after October 7: A Tale of Misidentification
Corinne E. Blackmer

Stand Columbia
Michael S. Kochin

Why Palestinian Violence Fails
Alex Stein

Shards and Specters of the New World Order

Casting Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies as Critique

by Timothy W. Luke

Telos Press is delighted to announce the publication of Timothy W. Luke’s Shards and Specters of the New World Order: Casting Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies as Critique, now available for purchase at our website.

From ideological dynamics in revolutionary Russia, cultural stagnation in the USSR, and ineffective Soviet governance in the 1980s to the USSR’s institutional collapse in 1991, the emergence of the Russian Federation under Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin’s wars in Ukraine since 2014, Timothy Luke investigates how the geopolitical clout of the United States has worked to contain, but at other times sustain, the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation. Luke’s critical studies also examine how Moscow’s strategies provoked radical Islamic resistance movements in Afghanistan and aided anti-Western client states, like Iraq and Syria, that threatened the New World Order envisioned in Washington after 1991.

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