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Circular Firing Squads, Elephants in the Room, and Dead Parrots

February 2, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

Usually it is the Democratic Party that is most adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. This year is very different. The Republicans have beat the Democrats in setting up a circular firing squad by ceasing to be a political party, or rather by morphing into a party ...

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In Defense of Gravitas

January 25, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

“I raise no objection to television's junk. The best things on television are its junk, and no one and nothing is seriously threatened by it. Besides, we do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. Therein is our problem, for television ...

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Prisoners of the Prisoner’s Dilemma

December 28, 2015 • by Laura Nelson

Here is the problem. In my humble opinion, Bernie Sanders is clearly the best candidate running for the office of President of the United States of America. His policies are sound, his integrity unimpeachable, his intelligence undeniable. He is also attracting tremendous crowds, and raising significant funds while bypassing (as ...

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Shades of Gray

November 28, 2015 • by Laura Nelson

First of all, my apologies for the title: I thought it irresistibly appropriate, but unfortunately and unintentionally reminiscent of that awful series of potboiler novels. . . My aim is to try to broaden this attempt at dialogue initiated by Professors Goldfarb and Zaretsky in their point/counterpoint into a multifaceted conversation ...

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What is Socialism? What is Revolution? A Note on Bernie Sanders

November 20, 2015 • by Eli Zaretsky

Defying the pundits, Bernie Sanders dominates the struggle for the Democratic nomination by describing himself as a “democratic socialist” and calling for a “political revolution.” True, almost everyone assumes that Hillary Clinton will be the nominee, and this is probably correct. Yet the Clinton campaign stands for nothing -- it ...

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Gray is Beautiful: An Open Letter to Eli Zaretsky

November 10, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Dear Eli, I find myself repeatedly disagreeing with your judgments as expressed here on Public Seminar. I have fleetingly shared this with you via email, in Facebook comments and in The New School hallways, but here I will try to explain more fully. I will be doing so addressing a paradox: ...

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Standing on the Barricades

October 13, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Returning to Gray is Beautiful Last year I announced my intention to write a series of posts for the PS Commons (we’re now calling these “letters”) around the gray is beautiful theme. Predictably, things got in the way. I did write soon thereafter on controversies surrounding Israel/Palestine and Turkey/Kurdistan. But then ...

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No More Mr. Nice Guy: Trump’s “Anti-Domestication” Tactics

September 14, 2015 • by Eli Zaretsky

While one can point to many forerunners -- PT Barnum, Ross Perot and George Wallace come to mind -- Donald Trump also represents something new. After all, he called Mexicans rapists, blamed a female reporter’s questions on her menstrual cycle, denounced a war hero for his bravery, threatened to destroy ...

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The Obama “Legacy” and Trump, Sanders and Clinton

September 6, 2015 • by Eli Zaretsky

There is no Obama Legacy. There are achievements to be sure, but a legacy means a way of thinking about the world, and about America, associated with a particular Presidency, and aside from the very important fact that we elected our first Black President there is no legacy. Obama’s ideas: ...

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Revolutionary Clintonomics: Growth, Growth, Growth

July 15, 2015 • by Chris Crews

Hillary Clinton unveils economic plan at the New School, heterodox economics out to lunch. If you missed Hillary Clinton's big unveiling of her new economic plan at The New School recently, don't feel bad. So did most of The New School community, which was kept in the dark until shortly before ...

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It’s Inequality, Stupid! Hillary Clinton at the New School on the Economy

July 14, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Attending Hillary Clinton’s speech here at The New School on Monday, I was impressed, though not inspired. In person, she seemed to me to be as wooden as she appears on television. Yet especially now, a tough day later with bad news from Greece and good news from Iran, I think ...

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The Israeli Disaster

March 18, 2015 • by Eli Zaretsky

There is no question that the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu will form the next Israeli government is a disaster for Israel and the world. Israel is a state that was formed in 1948 by the United Nations in response to worldwide public opinion. It is a state whose legitimacy was ...