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Populism Through Uprooted Truths

The resiliency of Erdogan and the AKP, Part II

March 29, 2018 • by Can Mert Kökerer

In part one of this paper, I elaborated the conditions for Erdoğan’s and the Justice and Development Party (AKP)’s successes in Turkey. I adopted Arendt’s discussion of the degradation of factual truth into opinion in modern societies and defined post-truth politics as based on a floating political space where the ...

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Populism Through Uprooted Truths

The resiliency of Erdogan and the AKP

March 27, 2018 • by Can Mert Kökerer

This is an attempt to tell and explain the “success” story of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its founder Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the current President of the Republic of Turkey. They came to power in 2002, following economic and political crises in the previous decade. The party and ...

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The Weirdness of U.S. vs. AT&T

An important debate over media mergers, or just another attack on CNN?

March 23, 2018 • by David Lieberman

The first thing to recognize about the antitrust trial over AT&T’s $85 billion plan to buy Time Warner -- which begins this week at the U.S. District Court in D.C. – is how fundamentally weird the whole thing is. Few really understand why the Justice Department decided to challenge the deal ...

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Revisiting Bartky on Foucault

The production and discipline of femininity

March 21, 2018 • by Alexandra Tadros

In “Femininity and Domination,” Sandra Lee Bartky examines the underlying causes and effects of women’s subjugation in contemporary society. Though women are generally understood to have equal rights, oppression, she argues, does not have to involve “physical deprivation, legal inequality, nor economic exploitation” in order to have a systemic and ...

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Philosophers on Fake News

Arendt and Foucault on power and truth in media politics

March 19, 2018 • by Haeun Kim

Despite their irrefutable and continued presence in the world today, for some time the practices of banning and censorship have struck me as antiquated, almost quaint, like a desperate but not wholly effective grasp for control by a declining State. My admission of this admittedly unsubstantiated and impressionistic outlook—although not ...

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Two Idiocies and a Maybe

Or the Political Limits of “Social Psychology”

March 13, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

We live in the academic Age of Science. I write “academic” quite deliberately. In the broader world, we live in an age of fakery, idiocy, and a hatred of all forms of science and scientific reasoning. The Age of Trump. But in the academy, Science reigns supreme. Big Data. Laboratory experiments. ...

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Cons and Scams: Their Place in American Culture

37th Social Research Conference

March 6, 2018 • by Christopher Howard-Woods

Monday and Tuesday, April 23 & 24, 2018 The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University invite you to "Cons and Scams: Their Place in American Culture." Cons and con men have long been present in American culture and are often represented as ...

Cons and Scams: Their Place in American Culture

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Divining Desire

The rise of the focus group

February 24, 2018 • by Christopher Howard-Woods

On February 15, 2017, our Executive Editor Claire Potter met with journalist Liza Featherstone to discuss the launch of her new book, Divining Desire, about the development and legacy of one of the great curiosities of our culture: focus groups. We livestreamed their conversation on Facebook, which you can watch here. If ...

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The Korean War Today: A Roundtable on the U.S. and the Two Koreas

Livestreaming the Marilyn B. Young Memorial Lecture.

February 22, 2018 • by Christopher Howard-Woods

On Friday, February 23rd, 2018 at 6:00 pm, Public Seminar will be livestreaming the Marilyn B. Young lecture, described below, on our Facebook page. Marilyn B. Young (1937-2017) was an influential historian of U.S. foreign policy, a feminist, and a prominent public critic of America’s endless wars in the twentieth and ...

The Korean War Today: A Roundtable on the U.S. and the Two Koreas

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Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part III

The LAPD and the Rodney King Affair

February 22, 2018 • by Eileen Chen

Below is the final segment of a three part series examining the history of police brutality in Los Angeles. This series was originally a paper submitted for the Sociology of Power and Authority class taught by Isaac Ariail Reed at University of Virginia. The first two segments tracked the inner ...

Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part III

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Sexuality and Agency

A course at the New School for Public Engagement

February 21, 2018 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

This course is an exploration of various perspectives addressing the enabling and constraining conditions for sexual agency. Beginning with the question of how we might define agency as a psychological construct, we chart a course along theoretical, empirical, ethnographic, autobiographical, and popular renderings of what it means to have -- ...

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Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part II

The LAPD and the Rodney King Affair

February 21, 2018 • by Eileen Chen

Below is the second segment of a three part series examining the history of police brutality in Los Angeles. This series was originally a paper submitted for the Sociology of Power and Authority class taught by Isaac Ariail Reed at University of Virginia. The previous piece laid the groundwork detailing ...