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Etiquette Books, a Royal Engagement, and National Monuments

Past Present Episode 111

December 30, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil debate the resurgence of etiquette books, the announcement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal engagement, and President Trump’s decision to limit the size of two national monuments.

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Etiquette Books, a Royal Engagement, and National Monuments

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Happy New Year!

A Note from the “Publisher”

December 29, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

A.G. Sulzberger became the publisher of The New York Times this month, as I became the publisher of Public Seminar. I find this coincidence pretty funny, though perhaps you have to be me to get the joke. The Times is a great institution, though ultimately just a family business. “A.G.” is ...

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Rally in DC for Palestine

Jerusalem is the demand. No embassy on stolen land.

December 29, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Roughly two thousand people gathered on the southwest corner of the Ellipse to demand that the US not move its embassy to Jerusalem. In the shadow of the National Christmas Tree and the National Menorah, they said Jerusalem was the capital of Palestine, not Israel. While most participants stood around the platform, ...

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On James Baldwin and The New School

What It Means to be a Progressive University

December 28, 2017 • by Julia Foulkes

And it is the local experts who field questions about Baldwin. The most recent request was from the university’s marketing and communications department to confirm that he had, in fact, been a student. The Baldwin estate had agreed that the university could quote him on its website but the estate ...

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Protestant Missionaries and Immigrant Jews

Cosmopolitan Allies

December 28, 2017 • by David A. Hollinger

Countless Congregationalists, Methodists, and Presbyterians and other American Protestants were transformed by their experience in Japan, China, India, and the Arab societies of Western Asia. There, the missionaries encountered civilizations of intimidating complexity and power that had survived since antiquity. The same applied to a lesser extent to Africa and ...

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Rebuilding Democracy in 2018

Learning #purple politics from the history of American conservatism

December 27, 2017 • by Claire Potter

In October, almost a year after the election that brought us Donald Trump, I was at the Library of Congress immersed in the archive of a man named Paul Weyrich, and thinking about the long aftermath of political catastrophe. Weyrich, some of you may recall, was a squeaky-clean political consultant ...

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Time Inc., Massage Envy, and Net Neutrality

Past Present Episode 110

December 27, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki debate the purchase of Time Inc. by the Meredith Corporation, sexual assault claims at a chain of massage spas, and net neutrality.

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Time Inc., Massage Envy, and Net Neutrality

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No-Platforming, “Unite the Right,” and New Free Speech Debate

Reexamining the Hannah Arendt Center’s invitation to Marc Jongen

December 26, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

As a Professor of Philosophy at Bard College Berlin honored to collaborate with Berkowitz and the Hannah Arendt Center on events both in New York and here in Berlin, I’d like to reopen this debate to touch upon Berkowitz’s invitation to Jongen itself and examine what light it sheds on the ...

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Caroling at the White House with the Seven Forbidden Words

Protestors sing for Trump’s impeachment

December 25, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Some three dozen people gathered across the street from the White House a few days before Christmas to sing carols to President Donald Trump. A dozen were dressed in the red cloaks of the handmaidens from The Handmaid’s Tale. Their signs evoked recent events, such as the seven forbidden words. Others wore the ...

Caroling at the White House with the Seven Forbidden Words

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State Retirement Reform

Lifting Up Best Practices

December 24, 2017 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

In only six years, from 2011 to 2017: 40 states proposed bipartisan retirement reform to provide private-sector workers retirement coverage; 9 states enacted retirement reform; and 2 states have programs up and running. Since Trump's inauguration, 22 states proposed reform and Vermont signed it into law. In the 9 states that enacted plans, 3.5 ...

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Gray is Beautiful Revisited

On the Politics of Sex and the Crisis of Democracy at Home and Abroad

December 23, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This week I am returning to my appreciation of the color gray, a theme I promised to explore regularly here, which unfortunately I have only returned to occasionally, and not recently. I am returning to the theme on this the darkest of days -- I started writing this during the winter solstice ...