Public Seminar

Informing debate about the pressing issues of our times. A publication hosted by @NSSRnews. New content every day, weekly issue out each Thursday.

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"I’m sure I’m not the only fan whose teenage crush was reignited by the real-life Captain Levi, and for whom the playbill will forever remain a prized possession."
—Abha Deshmukh reviews a musical adaptation of ATTACK ON TITAN @NSSRNews
https://t.co/HiFpKrOgAr

[Senem Aydın-Düzgit @SenemAydnDzgit]

Delighted to join the conversation on illiberal democracy in India, US and Turkey with @pbmehta @markfrazierTNS and Jeffrey C. Isaac for @PublicSeminar of the New School 👇

https://t.co/O5nJFDXeee

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Why is the self-described “only democracy in the Middle East” is cozying up to authoritarian regimes? Scholars Assaf David and Arie Dubnov explore the Israeli Right's overt illiberalism and the rise of “self-orientalization” discourse.
https://t.co/mfV9RjX1F7

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While the world moves forward, Putin clings to a nostalgic "retrotopia," Alex Rossen writes—and attempts to actualize this rosy vision of the past through military campaigns.
https://t.co/4JjgwjUTEt

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"What does it mean to issue dire warnings about the death of democracy, only to go quiet when those warnings seem to be coming true?"
—Melvin Rogers asks why a candidate who insisted that the stakes were too high to ignore has retreated from the fight.
https://t.co/7qi8LjHSW5

[Camila Rodríguez Nardi @crnardi]

Honored to join the conversation at @PublicSeminar thanks to the insights from @PulsarUBA 's study on the evolution of post-pandemic presidential approval in Latin America, North America, and Western Europe.

https://t.co/hjxxR3rFqi

[Camila Rodríguez Nardi @crnardi]

Participación en @PublicSeminar analizando los resultados de un gran estudio de @PulsarUBA y @KASPartidos sobre la evolución de la aprobación presidencial pospandemia en América Latina, América del Norte y Europa Occidental.

https://t.co/hjxxR3rFqi

[Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @M_T_Miller]

Interesting interview on the new translation of Marx's "Capital."

Reconstructing "Capital" https://t.co/udl3w3ZBIz via @PublicSeminar

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"Reinvigorated populist sexism—and the double standards it celebrates—has not gone unnoticed by women."
Don't miss @karachiiite's sharp-eyed assessment of #4Bmovement's place in American politics. @NSSRNews

[Iman Sultan @karachiiite]

I wrote for @PublicSeminar about calls to bring the 4B movement to America in wake of Trump taking office. “The call to boycott men is a symbolic expression of women’s rage at #MAGA’s return to office: a much-needed primal scream.”

https://t.co/V0HLbIXGYp

[Iman Sultan @karachiiite]

I wrote for @PublicSeminar about calls to bring the 4B movement to America in wake of Trump taking office. “The call to boycott men is a symbolic expression of women’s rage at #MAGA’s return to office: a much-needed primal scream.”

https://t.co/V0HLbIXGYp

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"Bannon is closer to Lenin than to liberalism, and he knows it. ” —Join James Miller and Forrest Deacon for a conversation of whether DOGE will in fact bring about "a revolutionary moment."
@NSSRNews
https://t.co/0s77gYQrc4

[Social Research: An International Quarterly @SocResJournal]

Print copies of our new issue “Policing” on the Social Research office shelves.📚
Thanks so much to Leanne Mattern for designing such a striking cover for this issue!

Pick up your copy here:
https://t.co/tWxrH3BqKY

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"As an Italian living in the United States, I am particularly struck by the way both countries’ political rhetoric about family values frequently takes a selective and exclusive approach to family support."
—Elide Vincente on "family values" @NSSRNews
https://t.co/uofjTYOAxS

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"My grandfather used to say that we didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us."

—Luis Jaramillo chats with Marisol Aveline Delarosa about family stories—and family secrets—in THE WITCHES OF EL PASO
@NewSchoolWrites @AtriaBooks
https://t.co/6j6avY0r7I

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"The naivety and vulnerability of its demographic allows Brandy Melville to persist without any real pushback."
—Hannah McIntyre reviews Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion. @parsonsdesign https://t.co/0wV1Uf6dq0

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"Given feminism and the women’s movement, it would have been much more possible for me to have children and still become a writer. But my life would have been very different."
—Honor Moore talks with Elide Vincenti about her new memoir, A TERMINATION. @NewSchoolWrites @APublicSpace @NSSRNews
https://t.co/FeFNKvCxxa

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"He wants to make a German book read like a French book and he wants the French edition of CAPITAL to read like a French book, for a French audience.”
—William Clare Roberts chats to Gant Roberson about Marx in translation @PrincetonUPress
@NSSRNews
https://t.co/iRPVW9BrHo

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"If you or someone you know is experiencing symptoms of a negative outlook on humanity, then David E. Cooper’s Pessimism, Quietism, and Nature as Refuge (@agendapub 2024) might be just the book for you," writes Alex Rossen.

https://t.co/UpECAMaxMO

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"The tragic truth is that military groups and regimes are increasingly treating schools, which should be refuges for children, as targets."
—Charles Bradley reports on why educational aid is what children in disaster settings want most. @NSSRNews
https://t.co/aMFLIGTcYW

[Daniel Kopp @danielkopp_]

“Wenders describes how Hirayama was inspired by the quiet, sensitive lives of monks. Hirayama, however, is a quintessentially neoliberal version of it—a monk without a monastery.”

Nick Johnston & I reviewed Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days for @PublicSeminar.

https://t.co/BfVs1xrrjk

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“Hirayama’s new lifestyle relies on the removal of potential obstacles to his focus on the beauty of the present—obstacles that include family, close friendships, and romance.”
—@danielkopp_ and Nick Johnston on the paradigm shift in #PerfectDays

https://t.co/vY19jkkzC0