Ben Weinberg, Author at Public Seminar

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Constructing the Neoliberal-Neoconservative Alliance in Israel

The Role of American-funded Think Tanks

November 12, 2018 • by Ben Weinberg

On October 15, 2010 Roger Hertog, Chairman of the New York based Tikvah Fund, gave a remarkably revealing speech. The occasion was his acceptance of the William E. Simon Prize, an award granted annually to prominent philanthropists who invest heavily in promoting free enterprise, and in the speech he laid bare the principles ...

The Rise of Neo-Conservative Think Tanks in Israel

The brief history of a peculiar context

October 29, 2018 • by Ben Weinberg

It was 2009, and the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) had a problem. Over the previous two decades Israel’s judiciary had grown increasingly, and to the IZS unacceptably, liberal and activist. Taking note of a number of rulings that had promoted greater formal equality among citizens, the IZS began considering how it might prevent the Israeli Supreme ...

21st Century Populism: Crowds, Mobs, Masses, and Publics

An NSSR Sociology Conference

April 3, 2017 • by Patrick Gilger, S.J. and Ben Weinberg

A spectre is haunting Europe — or the world, so it seems — the spectre of populism. At no time since the 1920's have such large waves of mobilization frightened, excited, and rattled so many, sparking omens of a collapsing world order. From Brexit to Trump, from Duterte to Podemos, populism ...