This Week’s Issue of Public Seminar…
October 16, 2019
…is out. Read about it here.
Author: Claire Potter
Professor of History at The New School and Executive Editor at Public Seminar
51% of voters want Trump impeached…
October 10, 2019
… and removed from office, so says this Fox News poll. This is up 9 points since July. The number of people who want Trump impeached but not removed from office has slipped from 5% to 4% — who are these people??? (H/T The Bulwark.) Is this what Lachlen Murdoch meant by the “post-Trump world,” a … More 51% of voters want Trump impeached…
Public Seminar has a cool new site…
October 9, 2019
…and we are in full-blown Beta launch people! Check it out: the new issue is out today; bookmark it, because you will see a new front page every Wednesday. This week, you can read an interview I did with feminist novelist Alix Kates Shulman.
When a White House transcript…
September 25, 2019
…isn’t really a transcript. But go ahead and read it anyway: it’s like two bobblehead dolls talking to each other. This reminds me of a common experience college professors have: being given work that is plagiarized, but not being quite able to tell from what it is plagiarized. My sources say that we will soon … More When a White House transcript…
Rudolph Giuliani, international thug…
September 25, 2019
…appears to be in this Ukraine thing up to his eyeballs. How can someone who was a federal prosecutor become so alienated from the basic principles of inhabiting a position of public trust, as this article in The Washington Post suggests? The article also makes me think that John Bolton may have actually had something … More Rudolph Giuliani, international thug…
The turning point to impeachment…
September 24, 2019
..was the culmination of contemptuous confrontations the Trump administration has been provoking with Congressional Democrats for almost three years. Something had to give. That something came later that night, in the form of a Washington Post scoop about a whistleblower complaint from a member of the U.S. intelligence community about a promise Trump had made to a … More The turning point to impeachment…
Listen up, podcast fans…
September 24, 2019
…the Exiles on 12th Street team, a podcasting gang affiliated with Public Seminar, has dropped its fifth episode, and we are getting good at this. This is our Futures episode, which focuses on the cities that might respond to climate change and to people, as well as a segment on how becoming vegan might stop … More Listen up, podcast fans…
When Donald Trump says “fake news”, autocrats jail journalists
September 24, 2019
So says Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times. Perhaps the most chilling portion of the story Sulzberger tells is about a call the Times received from “a U.S. government official” saying that the Trump administration knew journalist Declan Walsh was about to be arrested by the Egyptian government and planned to do nothing about it. … More When Donald Trump says “fake news”, autocrats jail journalists
