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The Destruction of Empathy, Part Two

On the political situation in Spain

August 23, 2018 • by Amador Fernández-Savater

Below is Part Two of an article originally published on the Spanish blog El Diario. It was translated to English for Public Seminar by Liz Mason-Deese. The Mandate of Masculinity According to Rita Segato, the first expression of the pedagogy of cruelty is sexist violence. Predatory capitalism establishes a battlefield on the ...

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The City Behind the Hashtag

August 23, 2018 • by Nicole Hemmer

In this episode, Niki investigates "How Charlottesville tells its history — and what it misses".

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What Do Latin Americans Do When They Do Religion?

From Destination to Journey

August 23, 2018 • by Gustavo Morello

Economic development, democratic governments, and a growing middle class have changed the spiritual realm in Latin America. Once dominated by Catholicism, today’s Latin Americans are migrating from one religion to another as they look for meaning and engage with superhuman powers. While there are many studies of the changing nature ...

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Beyond #MeToo

Female agency as heroine in The Tale

August 22, 2018 • by Jill Gentile

This article was originally published in the Philosophical Salon of the Los Angeles Review of Books. The author served as a consultant to Jennifer Fox's film "The Tale." This piece joins other related pieces published on Public Seminar, including an interview with the filmmaker, a psychoanalytic approach to understanding childhood ...

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The Summer of Hate

August 22, 2018 • by Nicole Hemmer

In this episode, Niki investigates "How the people of Charlottesville responded to months of white supremacist organizing and violence in the city".

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The Destruction of Empathy, Part One

On the political situation in Spain

August 22, 2018 • by Amador Fernández-Savater

This article, originally published in Spanish at the blog El Diario, is part one of two. It was translated to English for Public Seminar by Liz Mason-Deese. Is it possible to read the current socio-historical political moment in Spain not only as a dispute between different groups for power, but as a ...

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In Defense of Civility

Why protest and respect can go together

August 21, 2018 • by Nathan Eckstrand

The hostile words and actions recently directed at Trump officials have provoked much debate. Perhaps the most famous example is the refusal of the Lexington, Virginia Red Hen restaurant to serve Sarah Huckabee Sanders – a refusal many on the Left argued was justified. Jessica Valenti, for example, has written “that when ...

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Past Present Bonus Episode 6

August 21, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia discuss the release of Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the White House, a new book by former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: · Former White House Staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman has released a book about her time ...

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Populism as the Political

An excerpt from Ritchie Savage’s latest book

August 21, 2018 • by Ritchie Savage

In the following, you can read an excerpt from The New School alumni Ritchie Savage’s recent book Populist Discourse in Venezuela and the United States: American Unexceptionalism and Political Identity Formation preceded by a Q&A with the author. *** Q&A with the Author Public Seminar (PS): What made you decide to write a book ...

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Flash: The Making of Weegee The Famous

An excerpt from Christopher Bonanos’ latest book

August 20, 2018 • by Christopher Bonanos

Let’s talk about that name first. Or, rather, those three names. Usher Fellig was a greenhorn, a hungry shtetl child from eastern Europe who spoke no English. When he came through Ellis Island in 1909, at ten years old, he reinvented himself, as so many immigrants do. In his first years ...

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They Won’t Stop Until They Own it All

Beachfront owners’ and Libertarian activists’ fight to end coastal land-use regulations

August 20, 2018 • by Andrew W. Kahrl

America’s coasts are in danger of becoming the latest casualty in the one-percent’s relentless quest to own the entire planet, and in capitalism’s inexorable push to commodify everything. At the present moment, the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to hear an appeal filed by Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla that challenges the constitutionality of ...

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Imran Khan’s Promised Land

Can Imran Khan deliver on his pledge to tackle corruption?

August 19, 2018 • by Maria Khan

Since the 2016 presidential election in the U.S. we have witnessed a severe divide between the Democrats and the Republicans. In Pakistan, however, we have experienced a polarization between two different mind-sets and attitudes. The first can be characterized as stoic and materialistic, and perhaps even skeptical, while the second ...