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I Love Compromise, But…

Compromise as a Democratic Necessity or as Democracy’s Corruption?

February 16, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Yet, I also know that there is a second meaning to the word compromise, that compromise can be understood as the abandonment of principle, often insuring the continuation of a pressing problem, even making matters worse. Think of the compromises about slavery leading up to the American Civil War. Compromise ...

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System Error

Fighting Online Abuse from Within

February 16, 2018 • by Brooke Foucault Welles

Zoë Quinn is a game developer, programmer, artist, and activist. She is also the victim of Gamergate, an ongoing campaign of targeted harassment levied against Quinn and other women in the video gaming industry. For the uninitiated, Quinn’s experience reads like dystopian science fiction -- an embittered ex-lover fabricated a story ...

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The Nunes Memo, the Stock Market Fall, and the 2018 Winter Olympics

Past Present Episode 118

February 15, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia debate the Nunes memo and the GOP’s attack on the FBI, the recent stock market plummet, and the prospect of Korean reconciliation through the Winter Olympics.

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The Nunes Memo, the Stock Market Fall, and the 2018 Winter Olympics

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Neoliberalism’s Populist Bastards

A new political divide between national economies

February 15, 2018 • by Quinn Slobodian

This year, attendees at the World Economic Forum might have breathed a sigh of relief, believing that immediate threats to their existence had passed. Yet members of the so-called populist right in Germany and Austria entered parliament after big wins in elections at the end of last year. Their victories ...

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Rat Race

Why are young professionals crazy for marathons?

February 15, 2018 • by Dylan Gottlieb

Over half a million people finished a full 26.2-mile marathon in 2016; roughly seventeen million ran in a road race of any distance that year. It is nearly impossible, at least among a set of educated professional types, to avoid overhearing discussions of training routines throughout the summer months. Studies confirm that ...

Education

Are the Humanities Really in Crisis?

Or is it the university that deserves our attention?

February 14, 2018 • by Claire Potter

At the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, I was lucky enough to moderate a conversation between Earl Lewis, the outgoing President of the Mellon Foundation, and William D. "Bro" Adams, the former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The conversation had actually begun a few ...

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Reality Check

Too Many Workers Still Don’t Get Higher Wages or Paid Sick Leave

February 14, 2018 • by Nancy Rankin and Irene Lew

It’s been almost four years since New York City vastly expanded paid sick leave coverage for workers in small businesses. A wave of other new City and State measures have followed, raising the minimum wage, restricting unreasonable work scheduling practices, and, beginning January 1st of this year, establishing job-protected paid ...

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Trump Has a Small Pence

Sexual metaphors have the power to turn old hierarchies inside out

February 13, 2018 • by Rachel Hope Cleves and Amanda Littauer

Over the weekend of January 20-21, throughout the United States and beyond its borders, millions of protesters gathered in self-proclaimed “Women’s Marches.” 200,000 in New York City. 500,000 in Los Angeles. At least 1,000 in Richmond, Virginia; Concord, New Hampshire; and Raleigh, North Carolina. And 300,000 in Chicago, more than ...

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BREAKING: Angela Davis Papers Go To Schlesinger Library

A unique and rare collection

February 13, 2018 • by Claire Potter

This text, provided by the Schlesinger Library, was just received by Public Seminar as breaking news. The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study today announced its acquisition of the papers of prominent political activist and pioneering feminist ...

BREAKING: Angela Davis Papers Go To Schlesinger Library

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The Flu, Chief Wahoo, and Female Pain

Past Present Episode 117

February 13, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil debate the flu, the fate of the Cleveland Indians’ mascot Chief Wahoo, and the normalization of female pain.

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Blue Monday

The Sidewinder

Race, resistance, and the blues

February 12, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington In the past week I have thought often about “The Sidewinder.” “The Sidewinder” is a famous jazz standard written by the late, great trumpeter Lee Morgan, which appeared on his 1964 album of the same name. ...

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Solidarity is Not a Liberal Value

Feminism and collective struggle

February 12, 2018 • by Bryant William Sculos

On January 20, 2018, at the end of the Pioneer Valley’s Women’s March in Northampton, Massachusetts hundreds stood gathered in front of the imposing, castle-like City Hall. We were children, women, and men, trans and non-gender conforming people. We were black, white, and brown, gay and straight. We were rich and poor ...