The Pink Tide: Strategy and Socialist State Power

Introduction to Plato

Is Sexual Liberation Possible? Freedom, Repression, and Capitalism

What is Literary Criticism?

Michel Foucault: Truth and Power

Michel Foucault: Truth and Power (Wednesday Section)

Introduction to Liberalism: Freedom, Politics, and the Individual

American Policing: History, Politics, and Society

Museums and Empire

Reading Edith Wharton: On the Cusp of the Modern

The Black Jacobins: Liberation, Political Theory, and the Haitian Revolution

The Black Jacobins: Liberation, Political Theory, and the Haitian Revolution (Wednesday Section)

Hannah Arendt: The Life of the Mind

Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Introduction to Feminist Theory: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body

Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

Pornography: Aesthetics, Politics, and Pleasure

Reading Moses: Life, Law, and Literature

Thucydides and the Fall of Athenian Democracy

Trans/Queer/Woman: Theory and Politics

Trans/Queer/Woman: Theory and Politics (Thursday Section)

Algebra: Rules and Symbols

Macroeconomics: a Critical Introduction

Walter Benjamin: On the Concept of History

Proofs for the Existence of God

Feminist Killjoys: an Introduction to Sara Ahmed

Aesthetics and the Senses

Don DeLillo: Underworld

Modern Palestine: a Historical Introduction

Montaigne and Pascal: Inventing the Self

Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations

Sharia: an Introduction to Islamic Law

What is Participatory Democracy? Theory, Activism, and Power

Kathy Acker: Experimentation and Transgression

Theories of Consent: Subjectivity and Sexual Ethics

Economic Development and Underdevelopment: a Critical Introduction

Euripides: Tragedy and the Politics of Grief

Robert Moses: Power, Urban Planning, and Inequality

The Politics of Oil: State, Economy, and Geopolitics

Critical Theory and the Now: A Contemporary Introduction to the Frankfurt School

Reading Susan Sontag: Photography, Experience, and Spectacle

Musical Modernism: the Revolutionary Decade

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