Sanford Schram, Author at Public Seminar

Sanford Schram

Professor Emeritus in the Political Science Department at Hunter College, CUNY, Adjunct Lecturer in Political Science at Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNY), and author of The Trajectory of Trumpism: Talking about Racism, Fascism, Civil War and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2026)

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The Melania/Michelle Mashup: A Critique

July 21, 2016 • by Sanford Schram

Some folks on social media are passing around a link to an article by Oren Nimni that says, contrary to many other commentators, that the plagiarism scandal distracts from the larger problem that most political speeches are just hot air and that Michelle Obama’s original speech was itself a bunch ...

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The Meek, the Weak, and the Complacent: Jewish Reflections on the Ascendency of Donald Trump

June 23, 2016 • by Sanford Schram

As is common these days, I was talking with friends expressing frustration that not enough people were taking Trump seriously as a real threat to our constitutional system should he come to power as President of the United States. Part of the reason surely must be how literally no one ...

The Meek, the Weak, and the Complacent: Jewish Reflections on the Ascendency of Donald Trump

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The Left, the 2016 Election and the Cunning of History

June 13, 2016 • by Sanford Schram

Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president has fallen short, edged out by Hillary Clinton’s formidable organization and her deep ties to the Party’s establishment. The Sanders campaign offered a genuine alternative, funded by record-breaking amounts of small donations from ordinary people, promising to implement an agenda ...

Sanford Schram

The Melania/Michelle Mashup: A Critique

The Meek, the Weak, and the Complacent: Jewish Reflections on the Ascendency of Donald Trump

The Left, the 2016 Election and the Cunning of History

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