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The Facebook Follies

Deleting your account won’t un-elect Trump

March 28, 2018 • by Claire Potter

What harm does Facebook do? In the last several months, it appears to have done plenty, opening its platform to operatives who were directly or indirectly employed by the Trump campaign. There is always someone new to blame for electing Donald Trump: depending on who you ask, it was Bernie ...

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Cambridge Analytica, the Austin Serial Bomber, and Stanford’s “Manel”

Past Present Episode 124

March 28, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the historical significance of Cambridge Analytica and its relationship with Facebook, a serial bomber in Austin, and an all-white, all-male history conference at Stanford.

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Cambridge Analytica, the Austin Serial Bomber, and Stanford’s “Manel”

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On Leaping Into Love

Night of Philosophy Love Symposium

March 28, 2018 • by Skye C. Cleary

Remember the last time we had this dinner party, Aristophanes got drunk and went on a rant about soulmates? Here we are -- almost 2,500 years later -- and people still believe in this myth. Everyone seems to have forgotten that Aristophanes was joking! When we fall in love, it does feel ...

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As West Virginia Goes…

Reflections on the West Virginia Teacher’s Strike

March 27, 2018 • by Ken Fones-Wolf

For the second time in eighteen months, West Virginia has become a bellwether for the nation according to many pundits. In the fall of 2016, reporters latched onto “Trump whisperer” J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, to explain why the once solidly Democratic state now led the country in voting for the ...

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Critical Love

Night of Philosophy Love Symposium

March 27, 2018 • by Samantha Rose Hill

Mériam Korichi invited me to prepare a ten-minute speech for a Symposium of Love that she was hosting at the annual Night of Philosophy. Realizing I didn’t have anything to say about love, I thought about how I might begin to answer the question: What is love? What unfolded was ...

Blue Monday

Ladies Swing the Band

A reflection on women who know stuff

March 26, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington The month of March is Women’s History Month in the United States. This was not always so. Indeed, the notion that women were important historical actors has been regarded as absurd for most times and ...

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Reading and Misreading ISIS

An excerpt from Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou’s latest book

March 26, 2018 • by Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou

On March 29th, 2018, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou will give a talk entitled "Conceptualizing the Islamic State" in the Sociology Lecture Series of The New School. The talk will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Wolff Conference room (D1103) of Albert and Vera List Academic Center (6 East 16th Street, the 11th Floor.) Q&A What prompted you ...

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A Night of Philosophy

Reintroducing the flute player

March 26, 2018 • by Mériam Korichi

25 centuries after Plato’s Symposium… 1. “All you need is love”? “Make love not war”? These slogans were made famous by the radical counter-culture movement in the US in the early 1960’s and were to go viral in the year 1968 when the intellectual, social and political contestation spread to the whole ...

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Democratic Crisis and the Politics of Social Media

Claire Potter on her upcoming Democracy & Diversity Institute course

March 25, 2018 • by TCDS

“One of the things that’s so interesting about Democracy and social media today is that it’s a paradox… I think all the possibilities for social media being a democratic space are still there, but recent history suggests that social media has also been complicit in foreclosing Democracy, not just in ...

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The Political Chill of Snow

Anti-Semitism, Populism, and the Present

March 25, 2018 • by Andrew Seal

In New Hampshire -- where I live -- decisions to cancel classes are based more on what time the snow stops falling rather than how much snow is expected to fall. If it stops early enough the night before, school will be open the next day, whether the snow gauge ...

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The Fox News-Fake News-Trump Nexus

On the link between political orientation and the inclination to believe fake news

March 24, 2018 • by Sanford Schram and Richard Fording

In today’s overheated political climate, people are increasingly noting how difficult it is to convince others, who disagree, to alter their beliefs. Public discourse seems ever more compartmentalized in “silos,” where people express themselves in an “echo chamber” or “bubble” that reinforces their pre-existing biases. Contravening facts rarely get in ...

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The Practical and Principled Gray Argument for Democratic Party Solidarity

Reflections of an Unreconstructed Deaniac

March 23, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I am a committed partisan of “the democratic wing of the Democratic Party,” and have been so ever since Howard Dean ran for Democratic nomination to be President of the United States in 2004. I worked for his candidacy, wrote about it in The Politics of Small Things, and later wrote about ...