Drucilla Cornell

Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.


Reflections on 9/​11

14 October 2011
The Other 9/11

Present­a­tion at “The Other 9/​11,” Pace Uni­ver­sity, Septem­ber 9, 2011. In my remarks tonight, I want to reflect on the sig­ni­fic­ance of 9/​11 for us today, and by “us” I do not simply mean the cit­izens of the United States, although they will be the focus of my address. Every­body through­out the world has been affected by ...
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Revolutionary Possibility Today

28 April 2011
Libya Prayers

I am proudly part of a gen­er­a­tion whose life was framed by a revolu­tion­ary com­mit­ment to social­ist altern­at­ives to cap­it­al­ism, which for me always included struggles against racial and sex­ist oppres­sion. Many of my gen­er­a­tion — I was a teen­ager dur­ing the 1960s — have for­saken their rad­ical past. Book after book has come out about how many rad­ic­als grew up ...
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