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Thoughts on Violence in the Streets of Bucharest and on the Civic Defense of Romanian Democracy

August 12, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

This past Friday night, August 10, a major demonstration was held at Piata Victorei in downtown Bucharest to protest the widespread corruption of the SPD government, led by Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă, and by the party’s leader and power-behind-the-throne, Liviu Dragnea, himself convicted of corruption charges and separately for 2012 ...

Thoughts on Violence in the Streets of Bucharest and on the Civic Defense of Romanian Democracy

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Own This!

A portfolio of platform cooperativism, in progress

August 12, 2018 • by Trebor Scholz

“We are own bosses. The platform co-op model can help us to grow professionally and as people.” - Up&Go Member-Owner The Economy is Not Working for Most People Platform capitalism, the economic system currently dominating the Internet, is not working for most people. Despite its initial promise as a new commons, the Internet ...

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The Catholic ’68

Love and Protest

August 11, 2018 • by Adrienne Harris

“1968 youth need 1968 priests”, read one of the banners outside Westminster Cathedral, carried by marchers from a south London parish as part of a coordinated series of ‘pray-ins’ and protest meetings at cathedrals across the country. Progressive Catholic activism in the summer of 1968 took a variety of forms, ...

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Answering the Question: What is Socialism?

Gray reflections on a surprising turn in U.S. political culture.

August 10, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Last year, I quite critically raised the question: What Do You Mean When You Use the Term Neo Liberalism? I was, and still am, concerned that the term too often explains too much with too little, and enervates progressive politics. I worry that all the problems of our times are too quickly ...

Answering the Question: What is Socialism?

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Science Fiction and the Angel of History

A review of, ‘Sorry to Bother You’

August 10, 2018 • by Benjamin Balthaser

"It was 100 years ago… by which I mean last Monday" Brooke Gladstone of NPR's On the Media sighed after Trump's performance in Helsinki. Whatever one thinks about our current president, Gladstone's sigh is the kind of thing one hears a lot these days, as the calamities and once-in-a-century happenings pile up ...

Science Fiction and the Angel of History

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Tempest Tossed

August 10, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Alex Aleinikoff speaks with Georgetown Law Professor Marty Lederman on the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the travel ban.

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The Story of the “Good War” Must Change

Seeing WWII as an American triumph prevents understanding Russia and Europe today

August 9, 2018 • by Bruce A. Williams

In his recent trip to Europe, President Donald Trump criticized NATO, expressed a willingness to accept Russian annexation of Crimea -- calling it a Russian-speaking area -- and failed to challenge Vladimir Putin's support of separatists in eastern Ukraine where 10,000 people have died and a civilian airliner was shot ...

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An Interview with Robert W. Fieseler

Christopher Gioia sits down with the author of, ‘Tinderbox: The Untold Story of The Up Stairs Lounge Fire and The Rise of Gay Liberation’

August 9, 2018 • by Christopher Gioia and Robert W. Fieseler

Christopher Gioia interviewed Robert W. Fieseler for Public Seminar about his newly minted book chronicling a heinous act of arson that resulted in the death of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at The Up Stairs Lounge -- a gay bar in New Orleans. By turns sedulous ...

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Security in Mobility: A response to Arc of Protection

Addressing Protracted Displacement

August 9, 2018 • by Jennifer Hyndman

Mobility as protection for people: this is a powerful, provocative, and promising premise advanced by Alex Aleinikoff and Leah Zamore in their book, The Arc of Protection: Toward a New International Refugee Regime. Moreover, their contribution decidedly focuses on the volition and voice of those forced to move from their homes, ...

Security in Mobility: A response to Arc of Protection

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Ask a Feminist

Sexual Harassment in the Age of #MeToo

August 8, 2018 • by Catherine A. MacKinnon and Durba Mitra

The following conversation was held over Skype on June 4, 2018. An edited transcript is below. Durba Mitra (DM): Today as part of Signs’Ask a Feminist series, I have the opportunity to speak about sexual harassment and the #MeToo movement with feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon, a lawyer, writer, teacher, and activist who ...

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Simone Veil

A noble Frenchwoman is laid to rest in France’s Pantheon

August 8, 2018 • by Ronald Tiersky

On July 1 the mortal remains of French politician and historical figure Simone Veil were transferred from Paris’s famous Montparnasse Cemetery to be reinterred in the Pantheon, the national mausoleum where lie many of the country’s most outstanding personalities. During a solemn ceremony on the steps of the Pantheon, near the venerable Sorbonne ...

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In the Shadow of the Swastika

A Reply to Lindsay Parkhowell’s ‘Irony and Historical Detachment’

August 8, 2018 • by Max L. Feldman

It all started with a Facebook post. Upon arrival at London Gatwick airport, professor and Public Seminar editor Michael Weinman saw an advertisement on which someone had drawn a Swastika. Shocked, he uploaded a hastily taken photograph. One commenter argued that the Swastika should not be shocking because it is an ancient ...