Unity?
As the United States turns the corner to a new administration, Public Seminar reviews the events of January 6 and imagines a democratic future
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January 6, 2021
James Miller, “The Problem Isn’t Fascism – It’s Democracy in America: Should progressives work within traditional legal constraints and norms, or, like some Republicans, test their limits?” (January 20, 2021)
Allison Smith, “This is Not America, They Say: The shining city on a hill is in lockdown, surrounded by floodwaters, eating its young.” (January 21, 2021)
Todd Gitlin, “A Reality-Show Coup with Real Fascists Inside: The MAGA insurrection will be a forever reality show for recruiting new right-wing activists.” (January 18, 2021)
Andrew I. Port, “Embracing Democracy;The Storming of the US Capitol and the Positive Lessons of Weimar Germany: An assassination that took place almost one hundred years ago echoes today.” (January 21, 2021)
The Internet
Marshall Auerback, “Social Media Faces a Reckoning: Power online resides in the wrong hands.” (January 20, 2021)
Annals of Capital Punishment
Allison Frank Johnson, “Waiting for the Executioner in 1848 Austria: Regime change and the case for clemency.” (January 21. 2021)
Books
Martha S. Jones and Claire Potter, “How Black Women Fight for Our Democracy: A conversation with historian Martha Jones about her new book, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All.” (January 18, 2021)
McKenzie Wark, “Cis Lit and the Trans Writer: On Torrey Peters and the possibilities for trans girl fiction.” (January 12, 2021)
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