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Hosted by The New School for Social Research, Public Seminar confronts the pressing problems of the day and seeks to inform debate by any means necessary.

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    Jun 25

    Thanks : if I do say so myself, the collective nailed it last week. What an awesome bunch.

    In this week's , , , + more respond to the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant children from their families
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    Jun 26

    Family separation is part of American history, writes Prof in .

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    17 hours ago

    ICYMI my piece for on the Thorpe scandal, the BBC dramatization, and elite homosexuality in modern Britain, featuring a rare foray into the late twentieth century but with no less griping about Eton:

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    "Sports for [Trump] is politics by other means: here too he takes previously marginal styles and rhetoric and shoves them into the mainstream." EXCELLENT up x today!

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    Since coming to power, Trump has blurred the lines between politics and sports, with football representing “a theater of unmitigated violence that literally incarnates a remasculinized, great-again America” ://www.publicseminar.org/2018/06/unsportsmanlike-conduct/

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  6. Jun 26

    In this week’s episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia debate the legacy of Anthony Bourdain, the end of “family values” conservatism, and ageism as a form of discrimination

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  7. Jun 26

    From the archives: A rare interview with relational psychoanalyst Emmanuel Ghent on how he came to psychology, his development of Sullivan’s work, and the future of psychoanalysis

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  8. Jun 25

    The era of post-truth politics in Turkey, in which fact and fiction are indistinguishable, has allowed the ruling AKP party to “delegitimize and even criminalize any attempt to initiative to find a way out from this nebulous space”

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  9. Jun 25

    Philosopher Lewis Gordon and political theorist Derefe Kimarley Chevannes delve into the rich world of the award-winning movie, Get Out, drawing on Fanon, Gramsci and Dante

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  10. Jun 22

    By telling parents that their kids were being taken away to be bathed, ICE agents were tapping into an “ideology that treats immigrants as a contagion of the national body.” How which hygiene, contagion, & cleanliness shape the US immigration policy

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  11. Jun 22

    With the world up in arms over Trump's immigration policy, we revisit a pathbreaking text on what we need to do to tackle the global refugee crisis

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    Jun 21

    "A pathbreaking contribution to the canon of Modernist literature" - on Iliazd's RAPTURE. Read an interview w/ translator & an excerpt from the novel

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  13. Jun 21

    Why Donald Trump’s Dickensian policy of wrenching children from their parents & incarcerating them in caged institutions is nothing more than a ploy to force Democrats to sign off on the Border Wall

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    Jun 21

    This week, many parents in the US are packing their kids up for summer camp. Others, also on American soil, are wondering when their children will be released from detainment camps. I haven't been able to get this juxtaposition out of my head, so I wrote about it

    The US has a history of separating children from their families, writes historian , with Native American children forcibly sent to boarding schools in the early 20th century as way of forced assimilation
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    Jun 20

    Hannah Arendt is one of my favorite philosophers; admittedly I'm a bit of philistine in this area, but love her work on totalitarianism, revolution, and more; tragically she's more relevant than ever; nice piece from 's Richard J. Bernstein

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  16. Jun 21

    The US has a history of separating children from their families, writes historian , with Native American children forcibly sent to boarding schools in the early 20th century as way of forced assimilation

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  17. Jun 21

    Despite warnings of precipitating a nascent civil war, antifascist violence has ended with the retreat of the far righthttp://www.publicseminar.org/2018/06/antifa-vs-nazis-where-has-all-the-violence-gone/

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  18. Jun 21

    The antifa-versus-fascist skirmishes that pocked the post-US election period have markedly declined. Where has all the violence gone? ://www.publicseminar.org/2018/06/antifa-vs-nazis-where-has-all-the-violence-gone/

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  19. Jun 20

    This this week's , Niki, Natalia, & Neil debate the historical relationship between Canada & the US, the legacy of the late designer Kate Spade, & the controversy over proposed changes to an Advanced Placement history course

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  20. Jun 20

    Historical events may not be alike in their details but their dynamics can re-emerge at diff times & places. on the parallels bet the horrors at the US-Mexico border—where migrant kids are being separated from their parents—& the Holocaust

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