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The Thick Line

On the impossibility of coming to terms with a dark past

March 16, 2018 • by Santiago Mandirola

"We split away the history of our recent past with a thick line. We will be responsible only for what we have done to help extract Poland from her current predicament from now on." – Tadeusz Masowiecki As Poland’s first post-Communist prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki sought to draw a thick line between the ...

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Why Alexey Navalny is Important in Russia and the World

A look at how Navalny challenges Putin’s regime

March 15, 2018 • by Regina Smyth

The Kremlin’s political machine is shaping popular expectations about March 18th’s presidential election in Russia. For more than a year prior to the vote, the outcome of this election has been clear. In late 2016, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko announced that President Putin would be ...

Why Alexey Navalny is Important in Russia and the World

Education

Analytic or Continental?

The psychology of becoming a philosopher in the 21st century

March 15, 2018 • by Reinier Hoon

Divorce need not be a tragedy. Things do turn messy, however, when parents force their kids to take sides: for one and against the other. We philosophers who are coming of age in the 21st century find ourselves, unfortunately, subject to such an unhappy circumstance. To become a philosopher today implies ...

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Bannon at Booth

A conflict between principle and strategy?

March 15, 2018 • by Michael Weinman

Bannon, surely, needs no introduction, nor need we long belabor the reasons why the decision to invite him to speak at the University of Chicago proved controversial. Still, let’s note that in a letter of protest signed by over 100 members of the University of Chicago faculty, the rationale for objecting to ...

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Pennsylvania Had a Little Lamb

A special election in PA-18 shows the limits of Trumpism

March 14, 2018 • by Claire Potter

I didn't stay up last night to see Conor Lamb bring the eighteenth Pennsylvania congressional district back to the Democrats. I think this result will stand, although I think we have to presume that if the final margin is under 1,000 votes, the lawyers will go to work on it, creating ...

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Billy Graham, High School Activism, and Teachers’ Strikes

Past Present Episode 121

March 14, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the life and ministry of Billy Graham, youth activism after the Parkland shootings, and the West Virginia teachers’ strike.

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Billy Graham, High School Activism, and Teachers’ Strikes

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Gay Liberation

An excerpt from, ‘Before AIDS’

March 14, 2018 • by Katie Batza

Public Seminar (PS) spoke to Katie Batza (KB) about her new book, Before AIDS, which charts the rise and development of a national gay community-based health network in the US, beginning in the 1970s. PS: What prompted you to write Before Aids? KB: I initially wanted to write a history of how local gay community health ...

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Biofinance

Biological foundations of capital imaginaries

March 13, 2018 • by Marc Aziz Michael

Capitalism has been the subject of too many conflicting definitions for any of the claims that follow to have any purchase on truth -- understood as an adequation to the real. Beneath the numerous disagreements, however, a common substratum can be gleaned between the liberal Smithian, and the classical Marxist ...

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Hayden White

In memoriam

March 13, 2018 • by Paul A. Kottman

Hayden White, who passed away this week at the age of 89, was a teacher and friend of mine -- and a role model to me, intellectually and personally. I treasure the memory of our many conversations in California and Italy over the years. Knowing that I am far from ...

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Putting Journalistic Ideals Back in the Service of Practice

Al Jazeera and the problems of media today

March 13, 2018 • by Barbie Zelizer

The following was presented as the Plenary Keynote for the International Federation of Journalists and the Human Rights Commission of Qatar, Doha, July 2017. When journalism comes to mind, the tendency is to think West, to think settled democracies, autonomous institutions, reasoned deliberation, transparent decision-making, and a unified and stable public. But ...

Putting Journalistic Ideals Back in the Service of Practice

Blue Monday

The Fables of Our Faubus

Jeff Sessions, man of justice

March 12, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington Jefferson Beauregard Sessions has fallen on hard times. A celebrated Alabamian and Man of the South, he came out for Donald Trump long before any other national Republican politician, and then gave up his very ...

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Wage Increases Leave Women and Older Workers Behind

February 2018 unemployment report for workers over 55

March 12, 2018 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a 3.2% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in February, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from January. While low unemployment is finally leading to wage increases for some prime-age men, women and older workers are being left behind. In the last year, ...