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#MeToo and the Ontological Trauma of Consciousness Raising, Part 2

Cancel Culture: Failed Activism or Post-Traumatic Response?

February 11, 2020 • by Andrea Singer

#Canceled: Low-brow comedy that hinges on race-based impressions, racial slurs, and gross stereotypes. #Canceled: Anyone who has failed to meet today’s standards of wokeness or who fails to demonstrate sufficient contrition. #Canceled: Cultural appropriation (including your kid’s Halloween costume). #Canceled: Your neighbor -- for their bad parking job (such white male entitlement). Your kid’s ...

#MeToo and the Ontological Trauma of Consciousness Raising, Part 2

Fashion

Do My Lies Say Anything About Fashion?

February 11, 2020 • by Otto von Busch

The answer comes out of my mouth almost as a reflex when my colleague asks about my outfit. It is the quick nature of my response that draws my attention to it, as I so often feel my other replies come frustratingly slow. It seems wit was never my game. ...

North America

Things Fall Apart?

Perhaps, but in the shadow of Trump this is not a good thing

February 10, 2020 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Bruenig is one of many young writers on the left to take heart from the mainstream Democratic panic over Sanders’s ascendancy. On Facebook, Alex Gourevitch, a fine political scientist and frequent contributor to Jacobin, was even more emphatic. “The jury is out on what Bernie’s ultimate effect will be,” wrote Gourevitch, adding that ...

Psyche

#MeToo and the Ontological Trauma of Consciousness Raising, Part 1

Reflections and Conversations Across the Gender Divide

February 10, 2020 • by Andrea Singer

It was two years ago that actor Alyssa Milano, in response to the sexual abuse allegations against media mogul Harvey Weinstein, brought activist Tarana Burke’s #MeToo movement into the social media mainstream. And it was one year ago that Christine Blasey Ford, in the midst of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Justice hearing, ...

#MeToo and the Ontological Trauma of Consciousness Raising, Part 1

Politics

Social Programs Are Not Socialism

Conservatives have been gunning for New Deal programs for decades

February 9, 2020 • by Heather Cox Richardson

One of the reasons the nation’s deficit and debt is soaring is that Trump’s 2017 tax cut slashed tax revenues. And rather than helping regular Americans, “the plumbers, the carpenters, the cops, the teachers, the truck drivers, the pipe-fitters, the people that like me best,” as Trump put it, 60% ...

North America

America’s Weimar Moment

Bernie Sanders & the Future of Democracy in America

February 6, 2020 • by James Miller

But here we are. While progressive Democrats this cycle have been dreading the instincts of centrist liberals like Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, moderates cringe at the prospect of an avowed socialist leading their party. Some fear Sanders would split Democrats, and doom him to a defeat as sweeping as that George McGovern suffered ...

North America

Yes, Putin cares about Trump’s impeachment trial — but not for the reason you might imagine

He has another target in mind

February 4, 2020 • by Jessica Pisano

But the Kremlin does not need assistance from Trump -- much less from Rudolph Giuliani -- to find or manufacture dirt in Ukraine about Trump’s political rivals. Russia has highly trained professionals for that: kompromat, or compromising material, and blackmail are key Kremlin tools. Trump’s claim that he was concerned about corruption in Ukraine makes sense ...

Yes, Putin cares about Trump’s impeachment trial — but not for the reason you might imagine

Democracy

Why Ukraine’s president said there had been ‘no pressure’ from Trump

The word is weighted with different meanings in Ukraine.

February 4, 2020 • by Jessica Pisano

And yet, as some Republican members of Congress have noted, in his televised Sept. 25 meeting with Trump, when asked about the now-infamous July 25 phone call in which Trump asked for a favor, Zelensky said “nobody pushed me.” Why would Zelensky claim that “nobody pushed” if military aid was indeed on the ...

Why Ukraine’s president said there had been ‘no pressure’ from Trump

Democracy

Trump says he was looking for corruption in Ukraine — where President Zelenskyy was known for mocking corruption in Ukraine

Like Trump, Zelenskyy was a showman before he entered politics. So what does he stand for?

February 4, 2020 • by Jessica Pisano

Zelenskyy’s career as a showman reveals Ukrainians’ shared sense of moral values, frustration with politicians’ corruption and national solidarity in the face of Russia’s politics of division. I’ll explain below. Zelenskyy emphasized shared values Trained as a lawyer, Zelenskyy made his name in the Russian-speaking world through competitive improvisational comedy, on a ...

Trump says he was looking for corruption in Ukraine — where President Zelenskyy was known for mocking corruption in Ukraine

History

The QE2 Bridge and the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Hangover

A collectively inherited misfortune

February 4, 2020 • by David Anderson

High levels of traffic mean that the bridge is routinely denounced as Britain’s worst section of motorway, although it is in fact technically only an A-road, and not an M: this, according to a helpful attendant at the ‘crossing office’ on the Dartford side, being to permit the passage of ...

The QE2 Bridge and the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Hangover

Politics

Bernie Sanders is the Logical Successor to the Trump Presidency

February 4, 2020 • by Julia Azari

This requires us to confront the presidency as it is, in the wake of Trump and all of the developments leading up to that. This isn’t some bipartisan whiskey fantasy bullshit, or an Aaron Sorkin vision of patriotic speechifying. The question of what kind of president Sanders would be goes ...

Bernie Sanders is the Logical Successor to the Trump Presidency

Past Present

Moderate Republicans

Past Present Podcast, Episode 214

February 4, 2020 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Where have all the moderate Republicans gone? Neil wrote about Susan Collins and the end of moderate Republicans in his column for The Week. Niki shared Geoffrey Kabaservice’s book Rule and Ruin as the definitive history of moderate Republicans. Natalia discussed Ezra Klein’s recent New ...

Essays

Do My Lies Say Anything About Fashion?

Things Fall Apart?

Perhaps, but in the shadow of Trump this is not a good thing

America’s Weimar Moment

Bernie Sanders & the Future of Democracy in America

Yes, Putin cares about Trump’s impeachment trial — but not for the reason you might imagine

He has another target in mind

Why Ukraine’s president said there had been ‘no pressure’ from Trump

The word is weighted with different meanings in Ukraine.

Trump says he was looking for corruption in Ukraine — where President Zelenskyy was known for mocking corruption in Ukraine

Like Trump, Zelenskyy was a showman before he entered politics. So what does he stand for?

The QE2 Bridge and the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Hangover

A collectively inherited misfortune

Bernie Sanders is the Logical Successor to the Trump Presidency

Moderate Republicans

Past Present Podcast, Episode 214

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