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Democracy

The Blob and the Mob: On Grand Strategy and Social Change

In an excerpt from Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Beverly Gage examines how statecraft and social movements intersect

December 8, 2021 • by Beverly Gage

Means and Ends As other essays in this collection demonstrate, the idea of “grand strategy” emerged out of the world of military affairs. Under the famous rubric identified by British historian B. H. Liddell Hart, “strategy” was what generals did, while “grand strategy” fell to politicians and statesmen, charged not only with winning ...

The Blob and the Mob: On Grand Strategy and Social Change

Democracy

Navigating the World of Grand Strategy with Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston

The two historians talk to Public Seminar about Rethinking American Grand Strategy

December 8, 2021 • by Gregory Coleman, Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston

Award-winning historians Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston spoke (virtually) with Public Seminar editorial intern Gregory Coleman to discuss their new book Rethinking American Grand Strategy (Oxford University Press, 2021). Edited by Nichols and Preston with fellow historian Elizabeth Borgwardt, the collection of curated essays discusses what American grand strategy ...

Navigating the World of Grand Strategy with Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston

Politics

What Use Is Fact-Checking Against Fact-Free Politics?

The rise of false histories by real politicians

December 7, 2021 • by Edin Hajdarpasic

In early November, a report to the United Nations written by Christian Schmidt, the high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, was leaked to the press. In it, Schmidt warned that the country was in danger of falling apart, with a “very real” prospect for a renewed civil war waged by ...

What Use Is Fact-Checking Against Fact-Free Politics?

Activism

Photo Essay: Abortion Protests at the Supreme Court

Pro-choicers were out-numbered, out-signed, and out-shouted by pro-lifers

December 6, 2021 • by Jo Freeman

Several thousand people rallied in front of the Supreme Court on the morning of December 1. Inside, the Court heard oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a Mississippi case which would limit all abortions to no later than 15 weeks. Long before oral arguments started, the pro-lifers ...

Photo Essay: Abortion Protests at the Supreme Court

Politics

Could We Learn to Live Somewhere Between “Never Again” and “Thoughts and Prayers?”

The culture war over guns must end for school shootings to end

December 3, 2021 • by Claire Potter

You know the United States is edging back to a post-Covid normal when a distraught kid takes his father’s 9 mm Sig Sauer, purchased on Black Friday, to his Michigan high school and opens fire. It is the most recent of 53 school shootings this year that have killed 17 people and wounded ...

Could We Learn to Live Somewhere Between “Never Again” and “Thoughts and Prayers?”

Politics

How to Save Local Retail

Or how to start, anyway

November 29, 2021 • by Pat Garofalo

With the holiday shopping season upon us, it seems like a good time to consider local retail. Small retailers are struggling: They’ve been punished by the pandemic, of course, but the root of the problem goes back much further to the active disinterest by the powers that be in doing anything ...

Politics

In America, Political Violence Is Normal. So Normal It’s Invisible.

The right to petition for redress for grievances enshrined in the First Amendment runs against the grain of the right to bear arms in the Second Amendment

November 29, 2021 • by John Stoehr

It should always be on people's minds. Political violence is on people’s minds now that Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted. According to USA Today, far-right groups celebrated last week’s unsurprising verdict. “Kyle Rittenhouse is the hero we’ve been waiting for” was posted on the Gab profile for VDare, a self-consciously fascist organization headquartered ...

In America, Political Violence Is Normal. So Normal It’s Invisible.

Politics

Belarus Needs Our Help

The United States must stand boldly against the Lukashenka regime and its abuse of human rights

November 29, 2021 • by Valleri Robinson

As the migration crisis provoked by the thuggish President of Belarus subsides on its border with Poland, pro-Democratic leaders in exile along with the underground artists of the Belarus Free Theatre are still working feverishly to draw international attention to the ongoing human rights abuses under Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s regime. The regime’s atrocities and valiant ...

Activism

White House Rally for Voting Rights

A photo essay

November 23, 2021 • by Jo Freeman

On November 17, roughly 200 people were arrested in front of the White House at a rally for Voting Rights. This was the fifth action in a series of DC protests by a coalition of groups that are pushing for the John Lewis Voting Rights Bill to become law. These groups ...

Activism

Statement about Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict

A letter from the president of The New School

November 22, 2021 • by Dwight A. McBride

Dear New School students and colleagues, I want to take a moment to respond to the verdict that was delivered last Friday afternoon in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, wherein Mr. Rittenhouse was found to be not guilty on all counts. I have heard from many individuals in The New School community ...

Statement about Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict

Politics

How the Right Profanes Valor

The problem of “fallen heroes.”

November 22, 2021 • by John Stoehr

As they say, nothing ever dies on the Internet. That’s how I came across an old clip recently of Ron Colburn on Fox. He’s the president of something called the Border Patrol Foundation. He was explaining why border agents terrorizing asylum seekers with pepper spray was appropriate. “The deterrent they used is OC pepper spray—it’s ...

Politics

The Politics of Infrastructure

How the Lebanese struggle for public infrastructure is a lesson for all

November 17, 2021 • by Joanne Randa Nucho

Last month, Lebanon’s national electricity grid went dark—and this tiny Mediterranean country, known for its elite educational institutions, tourism and banking, but struggling to emerge from decades of conflict and corruption, found itself in newspaper headlines around the world again. The state’s two power plants had run out of fuel. Having ...