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A Democratic Tea Party?

An incoming wave of ideological hardliners

July 21, 2018 • by John Lawrence

The surprise defeat of NY Rep. Joe Crowley by non-traditional, anti-establishment newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has fueled extensive speculation about worrisome chasms opening within the Democratic Party as it struggles to reclaim a House majority. As with the victories of other newcomers in a number of races around the country, some speculate ...

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On Opposing Fascism with a Reality TV Face

“Politics as a vocation,” the social condition and Donald Trump

July 20, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I am waiting, ever more impatiently, for my fellow citizens to wake up, to confront that it is happening here and now, that fascism with a reality TV face is upon us. Even though the situation appears ridiculous and often comic, it’s ominous. I am not ready to declare that “The ...

On Opposing Fascism with a Reality TV Face

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Playground Ambiguities

Unequal childhoods and imaginative play in an era of financialized capitalism

July 20, 2018 • by Rachel Rosen

Rising up from a grassy knoll on the edge of the City of London, the naturalist wooden playground structure at Tower Hill Garden both blends into the park space and jolts the senses, lying as it does at the core of global finance. In dominant social imaginaries, nothing and no one could ...

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The Sculpture in the Stone

Preparing for adulthood the new old-fashioned way

July 19, 2018 • by Paul J. Croce

William James’s Hard-Won Development Between Childhood and Fame How do we come of age? The Pew Research Center reports a steady increase over the last five decades in the number of young adults, aged 25 to 35, living with their parents. The percentage of young people “nesting” at home has almost doubled since ...

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I-dentity

Is trusted love ever an option?

July 19, 2018 • by Hemda Arad

Integrating Relational Psychoanalysis and EMDR: Embodied Experience and Clinical Practice provides contemporary theoretical and clinical links between Relational Psychoanalysis, attachment theory, neuroscience, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). The author, Hemda Arad, delineates the ways psychoanalysis and EMDR can complement each other through a presentation of fundamental concepts and an ...

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So You Want To Be POTUS?

Avoid the disasters that long presidential campaigns produce

July 18, 2018 • by Claire Potter

Checking my Instagram a few evenings ago, I saw that Senator Elizabeth Warren was live. I clicked. In a grainy video, I saw her striding out onto a marble plaza talking to an aide, her blunt cut blond hair swinging slightly as she strode into the darkness. The sound of ...

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When Trump Met Putin

An Eyewitness Report of the Helsinki Summit

July 18, 2018 • by Elizabeth Kendall

The evening before the Trump-Putin “summit” in Helsinki, I got on my white Finnish Jopo bike and went to see what was happening at the Hilton Kalastajatorppa in the seaside suburb of Munkkiniemi. It was extremely weird that Trump & Co. would be at my favorite hotel, just up the ...

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Agency, Order and Sport in the Age of Trump

Jim Thorpe, Jack Johnson, and the Sporting Middle Ground

July 18, 2018 • by Andrew McGregor

It is all connected. Trump’s racist law-and-order politics, his criticism of black athletes, his newfound pleasure in the pardon, and his desire to be loved. His recent pardon of early 20th-century boxer Jack Johnson, who had been convicted of violating the Mann Act, reveals a fraught and complicated history of race ...

Agency, Order and Sport in the Age of Trump

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Argentina’s National Sport

On the uses and abuses of melancholic nostalgia

July 17, 2018 • by Lucas Ballestín

On June 30, fans of football all across ahe globe were struck (but not really surprised) by the defeat of an Argentine national team at the hands of an explosive France at the World Cup in Kazan, Russia. All across the world, Argentines and their sympathizers watched in sadness as ...

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Thai Cave Rescue, Breastfeeding, and Fleece Vests

Past Present Episode 139

July 17, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki discuss the children rescued from a Thai cave, the Trump administration’s approach to breastfeeding policy, and the fleece vests that have become a staple uniform of the finance industry. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: A Thai boys’ soccer team ...

Thai Cave Rescue, Breastfeeding, and Fleece Vests

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The American Experiment

A Poem

July 17, 2018 • by Laura Cronk

If you work for the Department of Justice, quit. If you work for the Department of Homeland Security, quit. If you are a border patrol agent, quit. If you are a contractor who builds detention centers, quit. If you sell vehicles to ICE, quit. If you are ICE, quit. If you sell tranquilizers to the Department of Justice, quit. If you write speeches for the Homeland Security Secretary, quit. If ...

Blue Monday

Confirmation

Timing is everything in politics – and the fight against Trump’s SCOTUS nominee is political

July 16, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington In the coming weeks and perhaps months much political contention in the U.S. will center on the Senate confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s nominee to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme ...