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Film review: Champ of the Camp

The first ever feature-length documentary filmed in the UAE’s controversial labor camps

January 1, 2018 • by Elena Gagovska

Mahmoud Kaabour’s film Champ of the Camp (2014) opens with the song by a South Asian man set against the backdrop of a modernistic building covered in glass windows. The song is called “Long Separation” and the setting is the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Such juxtaposition runs throughout the movie: the poor ...

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“Cat Person,” Black Maternal Mortality, and Elf on the Shelf

Past Present Episode 112

January 1, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia debate the viral New Yorker short story “Cat Person”, the disproportionately high maternal death rate among black women, and the Elf on the Shelf phenomenon.

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“Cat Person,” Black Maternal Mortality, and Elf on the Shelf

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Women Rule?

We’re Getting Closer

December 31, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

We may be in for another Year of the Woman. The last year to get that designation was 1992, which saw a great leap upward in the number of women elected to Congress, from 29 to 47 in the House and from 2 to 7 in the Senate. This followed ...

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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, ...

Education

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 ...