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The Art of [Breaking] the Deal

Trump Administration to roll back national auto efficiency and emissions standards

April 21, 2018 • by John Lawrence

The Trump Administration’s decision to roll back national auto efficiency and emissions standards and challenge California’s right to set tougher criteria will not only make Americans sicker and increase dependency on foreign oil. Trump’s unilateral action will violate an understanding that taxpayers would not finance the revitalization of a non-competitive ...

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Dark Times, Cultural Freedom and (the) Media

Reflections on The Inauguration of The Center for Media at Risk

April 20, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I am now at the inauguration of the Center for Media at Risk at Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia. The opening ceremonies have been completed. The presentations and discussions begin later this morning. I see from the program a broad set of concerns, with special sessions on the Digital, ...

Dark Times, Cultural Freedom and (the) Media

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How to Learn from Conservatives

Stop talking and listen

April 18, 2018 • by Claire Potter

In February, I was able to attend the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference, held annually in a conference center outside Washington, D.C. I live blogged two days of general sessions, interviewed people, heard numerous speakers, and was present at a Trump rally. I had the opportunity to talk to a ...

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Vicious Infrastructure

Security dams, military fortresses, and mosques in the “new” Turkey

April 17, 2018 • by Hakan Topal

The Turkish State is building a series of reservoirs alongside the Turkish-Iraqi border, not to produce electricity or to irrigate farms, but to prevent “terrorists” infiltrating from Iraq. At the same time, the state is installing military fortresses, called kalekol in Turkish, within Kurdish towns as a way to assert its powerful ...

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An Open Letter Regarding “Soros Mercenaries” at CEU

Michael Ignatieff, President and Rector of CEU

April 15, 2018 • by Michael Ignatieff

Dear Friends, Today, Hungarian media outlet Figyelo carried an article listing a few hundred people including members of the CEU community, who 'may' be on the list of so-called "Soros mercenaries." The publication of such a list is contemptible. CEU issued a press statement condemning this. This is a flagrant attempt ...

An Open Letter Regarding “Soros Mercenaries” at CEU

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Last Speaker of the House to Leave, Turn Out the Lights

Paul Ryan’s Decision to Quit

April 14, 2018 • by John Lawrence

It has been 32 years since a Speaker of the U.S House of Representatives has truly left office of his – or her – own volition. Paul Ryan has not been forced to resign like Jim Wright following a scandal or John Boehner following repeated defections by his own troops. ...

Last Speaker of the House to Leave, Turn Out the Lights

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Gray Memory

On a Self-limiting Collective Imagination

April 13, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” So wrote Milan Kundera. Years ago, I found in his bold assertion confirmation of the findings of my first major research project on the sociological dynamics of cultural freedom. I would like to think my study of ...

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Navigating Finance and the Imagination

A walking tour event

April 12, 2018 • by Lucas Ballestín

On April 14, a temporary assembly of activists, artists and interdisciplinary academics will drift together through the City of London to explore the intersections of finance and the imagination in the historic district of English (and global) wealth and power. With over 15 presentations on topics ranging from algorithms to architecture, ...

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Intellectual Foremothers

Reflections from The New School

April 12, 2018 • by Ellen Freeberg, Gina Walker and Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi

From 2015 through 2017 we traced the intellectual journey of Frieda Wunderlich, the only female professor to join a cohort of European scholars rescued from Nazi Germany by The New School for Social Research in 1933. “Frieda Wunderlich: Gender, Knowledge and Exile” Social Research, Vol. 84, No. 4 (Winter 2017) reviews a distinctive ...

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2018 Arendt-Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy

An announcement

April 12, 2018 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

The editors of the Imaginal Politics vertical at Public Seminar are excited to announce their partnership with the organizers of the 2018 Arendt-Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the New School for Social Research. This year’s Symposium, entitled “Philosophy and Coloniality” represents an overdue focus on the ways ...

2018 Arendt-Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy

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Using Memes to Extinguish Sexism in Poland

A look at Marta Frej’s feminist artwork

April 12, 2018 • by Aneta Stępień

The feminist memes by Polish artist, Marta Frej, feature women of all ages including school girls, grannies, athletes, and mothers engaging in ordinary tasks. But don’t be fooled, the messages included in the memes are powerful and revolutionary. Sleeping Beauty hangs a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign, female firefighters ‘extinguish sexism for ...

Using Memes to Extinguish Sexism in Poland

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Not All Rural Republicans Are Created Equal

Why Democrats should be looking to the coalfields

April 11, 2018 • by Meagan Martin

Executive Editor Claire Potter, our normal Purple Wednesday columnist, is off this week; we are pleased to welcome Meagan Martin to Public Seminar in this regularly scheduled slot devoted to bridging political divisions in the United States . Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance was named an essential resource for understanding the 2016 ...