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Homeschooling, Government Shutdowns, and Tide Pods

Past Present Episode 116

February 8, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki debate the role of homeschooling in an abuse case in California, the recent government shutdown, and why people are eating Tide Pods on social media.

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Homeschooling, Government Shutdowns, and Tide Pods

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North and South Korea Unite Under a Single Flag for Games

Can the Olympics bring about peace of the Korean peninsula?

February 8, 2018 • by Rachael Miyung Joo

On January 17, 2018, just three weeks before the start of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, North Korea and South Korea announced that the North would participate in this year’s Olympics. The two states will enter the opening ceremonies together under the Korea Unification flag, engage in joint training sessions, and ...

North and South Korea Unite Under a Single Flag for Games

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Why We Return to Certain Books Like Clockwork

On my return to Martin Guerre

February 7, 2018 • by Claire Potter

When people ask me what I am teaching this semester, I bury the lede. I first describe my exciting, five-section strong introduction to Internet studies. Then there is the big reveal: "I am also teaching a core course in our history graduate program," I continue, "with a super-sexy title: Historical Methods!" ...

Why We Return to Certain Books Like Clockwork

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Self-Limitation and Democracy

On the Ability of Society to Self-Regulate

February 7, 2018 • by Yavor Tarinski

[F]or the impulse of mere appetite is slavery, while obedience to a self-prescribed law is liberty. Jean-Jacques Rousseau[1] The philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis has often been credited with saying that "democracy is the regime of self-limitation." [2] But since for him the only true democratic form is direct democracy, this claim might seem a bit ...

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Top 5 Cities Where Older Workers’ Wages Fell and Younger Workers’ Wages Soared

January 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55

February 6, 2018 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

President Trump in his State of the Union address highlighted the country's falling unemployment and rising wages. This morning's Bureau of Labor Statistics' report of an unemployment rate of 3.0% for workers age 55 and older for the month of January, a decrease of 0.3 percentage points from December, does not contradict ...

Top 5 Cities Where Older Workers’ Wages Fell and Younger Workers’ Wages Soared

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To the Directors of the National Museum in Krakow

An open letter

February 6, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This letter addressed to Andrzej Betlej and Andrzej Szczerski, the directors of the National Museum in Krakow, came across my screen on Sunday. We are publishing it here today both for what it says about the struggle against the new authoritarianism in Poland, and also because, it seems to me, it ...

To the Directors of the National Museum in Krakow

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Burning Man’s Experimental Dreampolitics

Does the iconic festival suggest a new way forward?

February 6, 2018 • by Mariia Shynkarenko

When the era of master narratives recedes and well-trodden Enlightenment principles cease to be relevant, progressives should issue the challenge to come up with an alternative thinking. It is quite a challenge today to bring about new reasoning when the distinguishing feature of our current condition is distrust and skepticism ...

Burning Man’s Experimental Dreampolitics

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Blue Monday: Monday Morning Blues

An introduction to my new column

February 5, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Readers of Public Seminar will know that in the past couple of years I have become a regular and indeed somewhat relentless contributor of political essays on the dangers of Trumpism and the challenges to liberal democracy. I have greatly enjoyed working with the PS staff, and have been especially happy to collaborate with ...

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Religious Accommodations and “Equal But Different” Citizenship

Rogers Smith

February 5, 2018 • by Public Seminar

The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL) presents Populism and Religion lecture series from Rogers Smith (Associate Dean for the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at UPenn). A note from Jean Cohen, project organizer: Everyone seems to be writing on populism these days, which is unsurprising given the ...

Religious Accommodations and “Equal But Different” Citizenship

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A Conversation We Must Not Stop Having

The #MeToo movement

February 5, 2018 • by Elena Gagovska

I tried to speak out. I told our homeroom teacher and she yelled at the boys in our class in front of the girls, telling them that this was wrong. But no real disciplinary measures were taken. Most of the boys (at least in my class) engaged in non-consensual touching, ...

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#MeToo East and West

A matter of history and conditioning

February 4, 2018 • by Slavenka Drakulić

This post was originally published by Eurozine and was accompanied by three other posts that Public Seminar has reposted this week. Following the first wave of the #MeToo movement, a new phase of reflection has set in. Here, four authors and journal editors from the US and Europe assess #MeToo's achievements ...

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Religious Populisms, Right and Left, in Europe and the Americas

Jose Casanova

February 3, 2018 • by Public Seminar

The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life presents the Populism and Religion lecture series from Jose Casanova (Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Theology at Georgetown University). A note from Jean Cohen, project organizer: Everyone seems to be writing on populism these days, which is unsurprising given the global rise ...