Simon Garnett, Author at Public Seminar

Europe 1948/2022

Uncontrolled migration is one of Russia’s weapons in its war with the West

March 23, 2022 • by Simon Garnett

Unlike in 2015, European citizens are unanimous in their solidarity with the refugees. Public opinion counts. In Poland especially, neighborliness is everywhere to be seen, despite all the historical baggage between the two countries. This time, there is a good chance that member state governments will rise to the challenge....

The New Essentialism

Old ways of thinking are returning–again

March 25, 2021 • by Simon Garnett

_____ If we share the assumption that every culture is necessarily incomplete in itself and that there is no such thing as a self-contained, homogeneous culture, then the very definition of a given culture has to include what I would call inter-translatability. In other words, being-in-translation is an essential defining feature ...

Fascism for Our Time?

On the use and abuse of political concepts

October 15, 2020 • by Simon Garnett and James Miller

In August, in the midst of the Democratic Convention, the party’s most prominent progressive, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, declared on social media that this year’s Presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump was about “stopping fascism in the United States.” Shortly afterward, in an essay for The New Republic, a trio ...

Simon Garnett

Europe 1948/2022

Uncontrolled migration is one of Russia’s weapons in its war with the West

Fascism for Our Time?

On the use and abuse of political concepts

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