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A Woman’s Work

A Library of One’s Own

November 18, 2017 • by Sara Georgini

Read the news with a suffragist of 1913. Women’s rights advocates scanning the society page of the Atlanta Constitution on the morning of 4 June had a bevy of personas to peruse. There was the “Woman Shopper” gliding through a downy Eden of department stores: “Your presence, your influence and the wholesome atmosphere that ...

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Intellectuals—Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them, Part I

Re-considering the democratic roles of the intellectual as revealed this week in Public Seminar

November 17, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Intellectuals have the knowledge and the experience required for people themselves to govern well. I am thinking of this today as I read the news and as I think about our work here at Public Seminar, drawing on my own long investigation of the sociology of intellectuals. My work on intellectuals ...

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GIDEST: End of Life

A nonfictional film

November 17, 2017 • by GIDEST

End of Life recently premiered at Doclisboa in Lisbon and will soon have its North American premiere at the Montreal International Documentary Film Festival. GIDEST is a Mellon-funded research institute based at The New School that incubates transdisciplinary research at the intersection of social theory, art, and design. As well as our faculty, ...

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What Happens Now?

Naomi Klein, No is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

November 16, 2017 • by Claire Potter

It’s a year after the American Election Day that shook the world, and a new book that seeks to explain the disaster of Donald Trump’s victory drops every few weeks. We political historians are scrambling to keep up. Last month, Hillary Clinton’s What Happened? hit the stands. How does it feel to ...

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The Playstation Dreamworld

An excerpt from Alfie Bown’s latest book

November 16, 2017 • by Alfie Bown

Dreams are the fulfillment of a wish. Dreams are the disguised fulfillment of a wish. Dreams are the disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish. Dreams are the disguised fulfillment of a repressed, infantile wish. Even the first of these statements is already complex. For Freud, a wish is not just ...

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The Antidote to “Too Much Niebuhr”?

A.J. Muste and the Anti-American Political Tradition

November 15, 2017 • by Ray Haberski

The conflict between radical pacifists and other Protestants went deeper than the question of the United States’ role in the world; it was also about national identity, race, and historical memory. To Muste, when policymakers posited the United States as the representative of democratic civilization, they effectively erased its history ...

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Can Roy Moore’s Candidacy Survive?

If it does, Jesus will have had nothing to do with it

November 15, 2017 • by Claire Potter

The most vigorous defense of Moore, who has been accused of groping girls as young as fourteen, has come from another Alabama public official. "Take Joseph and Mary," Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler told the Washington Examiner, on November 9. "Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. ...

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40th Anniversary of the International Women’s Year Conference

University of Houston celebrates feminism then and now

November 14, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

From November 18 to 21, 1977, over 20,000 people gathered in Houston, Texas to celebrate International Women's Year and identify goals for women for the next decade. This was the first and only national women's conference to be sponsored by the federal government. On November 6 and 7, 2017, a few hundred people ...

40th Anniversary of the International Women’s Year Conference

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Kevin Spacey, Company Towns, and the Reformation

Past Present Episode 106

November 14, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki debate Kevin Spacey’s coming out amid charges of pedophilia, the 21st century company town, and the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

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Kevin Spacey, Company Towns, and the Reformation

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One Hundred Years of Communism

A look at Leninism

November 13, 2017 • by Vladimir Tismaneanu

On November 7, 1917 (October 25, old style), the Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government, took over power, and established their totalitarian rule (the first one-party system ever). Lenin called it "the dictatorship of the proletariat." Rule of law and traditional morality were discarded as "bourgeois hypocrisy." Political competition between parties ...

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An Unreasonable Standard

Reconsidering law, race and police violence

November 13, 2017 • by Jennifer M. Page

Wilcox escaped the Coburns, but 30 minutes later, was confronted by another police officer, Jesse Kidder. Wilcox left his vehicle and ran at Kidder. “Shoot me, shoot me,” Wilcox said again and again, still running forward. “I don’t want to shoot you, man,” yelled Kidder as he backed up. Wilcox ...