Archive - Public Seminar

"The omelette is a mirage"

Roger Berkowitz, Adam Tooze, and David Hollinger on the Trump administration breaking eggs

Aug 29 •

Summer reading: "Who Does My Algorithm Think I Am?"

Marisol Aveline Delarosa offers a portrait of the author according to her apps

Aug 22 •

Summer reading: "In Search of the Sublime … Underground"

Mary Karmelek asks: "How far can art carry us through New York City’s broken subway system?"

Aug 15 •

Summer reading: "US Tariffs and Trump’s Neopatrimonial Mercantilism"

William Milberg on why current episode of international economic policy is, in part, the inherited legacy of crises past

Aug 8 •

Summer reading: "The Working-Class Venezuelans at the Center of Trump’s 'Crisis'”

Erick Moreno Superlano on the xenophobic rhetoric dividing immigrant communities

Aug 1 •

July 2025

Summer reading: "Lula 3.0 and the Austerity Trap"

Nara Roberta Silva on approval ratings and fiscal conservativism

Jul 18 •

Summer reading: "The Self-Orientalization of Israeli Politics"

Assaf David and Arie Dubnov on why “the only democracy in the Middle East” is cozying up to authoritarian regimes

Jul 11 •

Summer reading: "Elon Musk’s Cruel Moral Sentiments"

David Lay Williams on what the rich man has yet to learn from his study of the Bible

Jul 3 •

June 2025

How to escape surveillance

On walking across borders in Poland, playing banned music in Indonesia, and dancing the Palestinian dabke in New Jersey

Jun 27 •

Don't look back at the darkness

The quandary of G. W. Pabst, AI as a tool of resistance, clubbing in Berlin, and more

Jun 20 •

Ten observations on the anti-ICE protests ...

... and Trump’s misuse of our military to thwart legal protest

Jun 16 •

Who wants to watch robots play football?

We built a bigger brain. Now we have to learn to laugh at it.

Jun 13 •

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