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Use of Force

Law Enforcement in the United States

July 26, 2017 • by Louis Colombo

On July 6, 2016, at the age of 32, Philando Castile was shot dead in his car in what should have been a routine traffic stop. Although the officer involved in the shooting was charged with manslaughter and reckless discharge of a firearm, he was acquitted of all charges on ...

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Gagging the Victims

Accusation as the real crime in campus sexual assault

July 26, 2017 • by Katie Gentile

The recent Title IX Listening Sessions of July 13 2017 sponsored by U. S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have prompted this week’s forum at Public Seminar. As part of the process, Secretary DeVos also hosted men’s rights activists who champion the cause of individuals claiming to be falsely ...

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The Rule of Law on the Peripheries of Europe

Poland’s Transformation 1988 – 2016

July 25, 2017 • by Ewa Letowska

With recent attacks on democracy across Europe, and across the world, The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies just completed its 26th annual Democracy & Diversity Institute in Wroclaw, Poland, “Democracy Under Siege: An Effort in Understanding.” The year’s extraordinary program of seminars, guest lectures, film screenings, and cultural tours culminated ...

The Rule of Law on the Peripheries of Europe

Education

Not An Advocate for Students or the Public Interest

Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education

July 25, 2017 • by Sherman Dorn

In slightly less than half a year as Secretary of Education, thus far Betsy DeVos has promoted the interests of profit- and rent-seekers in higher education over students' interests and over the public interest. Her most consequential acts affecting higher education has included removing consumer protections for current students borrowing ...

Not An Advocate for Students or the Public Interest

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How to Rescue ‘The People’ from Populism

Reviving the law to reclaim liberal democracy

July 24, 2017 • by Alessandro Ferrara

Can Rawls's paradigm of “political liberalism” help us understand populism and cope with it? Should this question sound surprising, think of how much water has flown under the bridges of democracy since the time when advocates of participatory, “strong” democracy like Barber intimated that “the survival of democracy depends on ...

How to Rescue ‘The People’ from Populism

Education

Myths on the Body

What Candice Jackson would know about sexual consent if she read the research

July 24, 2017 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

The recent Title IX Listening Sessions of July 13 2017 sponsored by U. S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has prompted this week's forum at Public Seminar. As part of the process, Secretary DeVos also hosted men's rights activists who champion the cause of individuals claiming to be falsely ...

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We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

A Review of Adam Greenfield’s Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

July 23, 2017 • by James Daniel

As new technologies course towards cultural and economic supremacy, Silicon Valley CEOs and digital advocates have become increasingly circumspect about the question of risk. Many leaders in the industry like Apple CEO Tim Cook have effectively banished the word from their lexicon. As he noted in a recent keynote address ...

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When Women Sued the New York Times

Gender Equity and Journalism in 1972

July 22, 2017 • by Claire Potter

Forty-five years ago this week, a dozen women representing the Women's Caucus at The New York Times began a civil rights revolution in journalism. Their July 19, 1972 confrontation with publisher Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger and his board was, by 1974, a class action employment discrimination lawsuit, Boylan v. New York Times. ...

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Taking “Illiberal Democracy” Seriously

Responding to Jeffrey C. Isaac’s Illiberal Democracy

July 21, 2017 • by Jan-Werner Mueller

This piece is part of the discussion generated by Jeffrey C. Isaac’s piece, Illiberal Democracy. Jeffrey Isaac wants us to take seriously “illiberal democracy” both as an idea and as a political reality at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is indeed important to understand the challenges posed by political leaders ...

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Why Russia Needs Respect

The Consequences of American Overconfidence

July 21, 2017 • by Eliot Borenstein

With new revelations about the possible connections between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign emerging every day, Public Seminar contacted some specialists to answer the question: “What do Americans need to know about Russia to understand why Vladimir Putin interfered with an American election?” On Monday, Richard D. ...

Education

Why Do Schoolhouses Matter?

The Rise of Public Education in America

July 20, 2017 • by Johann Neem

In our imagined past, we idealize the little red schoolhouse, a symbol of ourselves as a community, as a public. We dreamily recall the public schoolhouse as a place where children of the village congregated; learned their reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic; and became Americans together. Certainly, as Jonathan Zimmerman argues ...

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Making Russia Great Again

The Facts and Fictions of Russian Nationalism

July 19, 2017 • by Abby Schrader

On Monday, Richard D. Anderson argued that carefully managed conflict with the United States allows Putin to balance the competing demands of kleptocracy and nationalism without giving in to forces on his left or his right. Today, historian Abby Schrader explains that eliminating economic sanctions may be critical to the stability ...