Christopher Howard-Woods, Author at Public Seminar

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One Year after Las Vegas

Where does the gun control debate stand?

October 9, 2018 • by Christopher Howard-Woods

Within a period of about ten minutes, 64-year old Stephen Paddock, positioned from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, fired 1,100 rounds of ammunition into an open crowd one year ago last week. The deadliest of its kind to date, the incident took the lives ...

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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 ...