JFK Files, Joni Mitchell, and Anxiety
Past Present Episode 105
In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the declassification of the JFK files, Joni Mitchell, and our age of anxiety.
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Girl Scouts, #MeToo, and HIV/AIDS
Past Present Episode 104
In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the Girl Scouts in light of the Boy Scouts’ recent decision to admit girls, #MeToo activism, and how Michael Friedman’s recent death of HIV/AIDS helps us understand the illness in historical context.
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Pentagon Anti-war March
50 years later Vietnam War protestors reunite
On October 21, 1967 some 50,000 people marched on the Pentagon to "Confront the Warmakers" about the War in Vietnam. Fifty years later about one hundred of them met in DC to commemorate the event.
They began the evening of October 20 with a small rally in front of the Pentagon. After a couple speeches, ...
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terra nullius, Jules Ferry Calais
Readings and Exhibits to mark the First Anniversary of the Destruction of the Jungle
There are spaces outside memory that belong to no-one or to nature, and there are places cast out of memory and returned to nature or to no-one. Across them there is an order, an order that brings together in time the ground, the territory, the space, the place, the land, ...
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No Muslim Ban Marches in D.C.
October 18th 2017
Two thousand people rallied and marched from Lafayette Park to the Trump Hotel on October 18. Organized by immigrant and civil rights groups, it was the culmination of a couple weeks of activities to demand that there never be any ban in Muslims entering the U.S.
The day before a federal judge in ...
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Protest at International Monetary Fund Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C. October 12th
Two dozen people gathered outside the annual meetings of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) to protest policies which they said created too much inequality. Ten years ago, the number of protestors was closer to two thousand. A new group calling itself the Fight Inequality Alliance gathered in a small park near the IMF and ...
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Harvey Weinstein, Pumpkin Spice, and the Dove Ad Controversy
Past Present Episode 103
In this episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia debate alleged sexual predator Harvey Weinstein and the culture that enables him, the history of the pumpkin spice phenomenon, and the controversy over a Dove soap advertisement.
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Bronx School Killing, Romance Novels, and Game Shows
Past Present Episode 102
In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil debate a fatal stabbing at a Bronx high school, the history of the romance novel and its critics, and the evolution of the game show genre.
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Flashback! Hawaii
Past and Present looks back
In this week's flashback episode, we revisit our segment on the history of Hawaii.
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The Equifax Hack
Past and Present: Bonus Episode 4
In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the Equifax hack.
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Reading Adorno on Fascism in the Age of Trump
A New School roundtable
In an era marked by the rise of a paradoxically international right-wing populism, and in the midst of ethno-nationalist tumult in the United States, this roundtable reflects on the legacy and contemporary utility of “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda.”
Might Freud and other psychoanalytic theorists still have something ...
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March for Racial Justice and March for Black Women
Sept. 30, 2017 DC
Black Women First!
Black Women First!
Shouted several thousand people as they marched up Pennsylvania Ave. from the Capitol on September 30. They were leading two marches, which started at two different points on Capital Hill before joining to march to the Department of Justice on 10th St. There they planned to turn south to go to ...
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