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Is There an Israeli Future? Post-Election Reflections on Minister Lapid, “Riki Cohen from Hadera” and the Pursuit of a Normal Society
Between Principle and Practice (Part 2): The New School for Social Research
Between Principle and Practice (Part I): Obama and Cynical Reasoning
Civil Rights Ghosts Haunt Capitol Hill
Democratic Development in South Africa? Mamphela Ramphele’s New Party
The Upcoming Italian Elections and the Seamy Side of Satire
Climate Change and the Art of Protest
Teaching Us To Be Americans Again: The DREAMers On Their Long March To Immigration Reform
Class Matters: The Not So Hidden Theme of the State of the Union
Moving the Center Left on Issues Foreign and Domestic: Anticipating the State of Union Address
Guns and the Art of Protest: Thinking about What is to be Done on the Left
Protesting at the 2013 Inauguration
Against Cornell West / For Barack Hussein Obama: MLK’s Bible, the Inauguration and the Left
Barack Obama: Equality, Diversity and the American Transformation
The Fiscal Cliff: American Follies Seen from Abroad
The Election of Women: 2012
Testimony of a Gun-Death Survivor
Sandy Hook and Hitler
After Newtown: A Discussion about Gun Controls and Popular Culture
After Newtown: A Dialogue on the Left
Occupy the White House
The Reagan Revolution Ends! Obama’s Proceeds!
Social Media and Protest in the Age of Globalization
All-Consuming Liberalism
After 2012: The Troubled Values of the American Right
Change is a “Right” Thing Now
At Home, Abroad: Election Day
Omar Khadr’s Canadian Homecoming
A Dialogue on Politics, Anti-Intellectuals and Ideologues on the Occasion of the Ryan–Biden Debate
The Truth in Germany – from University to Euro
Holland Playing Safe: Pro-EU Parties Win the Dutch Elections
The Marikana Strike Killings, South Africa
The Three Stigmata of Todd Akin
9/11: A Post on Memory and Forgetting
Pussy Riot vs. The Pseudo Religious of Eastern Europe
Conservative Principles vs. Conservative Practices: A Continuing Discussion
Politics as an End in Itself: Occupy Wall Street, Debt and Electoral Politics
Politics as an End in Itself: New Media and the Persistence of OWS
Reflections on Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day
A Polish Cultural War: The Battle over the History and Education
Partisan Change
Chief Justice Roberts and the Health of the American Body Politic
Heat and Light over the Wisconsin Uprising: Cooptation?
Heat and Light over the Wisconsin Uprising: On Unions
Sports in Politics?
OWS and the Arab Spring: The New “New Social Movements”
German Provincial Elections: On to the Post-Macho Welfare State, Pirates Included
Reflections on the Elections in Greece
Election in France: A European Roosevelt?
OWS and the Power of a Photo
The French Presidential Election: In Search of Time Past
The Aggressive Cynicism of Mitt Romney and His Party: A Cynical Society Update Part 2
Hoodie Nights: Trayvon Martin and the Racial Politics of Small Things
A Cynical Society Update: Part 1
The OWS Think Tank: Then and Now
Making Sense of Resistance: An Invitation to a Book Party and Discussion
OWS at Six Months: Reflections on the Winter Occupation
Mandates and Their Foes
Putin Wins?
Between Left and Right: Reflections on the Position of Paul Gottfried
Towards the Good Society: A Conservative View
The Right vs. Conservatives vs. The Left
The Conservative Mind = The Reactionary Mind?
Where are the Conservative Intellectuals? II
From Solidarity 2.0 to Civil Society 1.0?
Between Radical Hopes and Practical Projects: Reflections on the Flying Seminar Session with Bill Zimmerman
Romania’s Winter of Discontent
The State of the Union: Opening the Debate of 2012
President Obama vs. the Republican Congress
Thinking about Obama on MLK Day: Governing with Republicans?
Vaclav Havel: The End of an Era
Citizen Havel Leaves
What Václav Havel Meant to Me
Russia’s Democratic Ideas and Practices
Brokered Democracy
The Occupation of the New School as a Childhood Ailment of the OWS
Occupy New School: A Dissenting Opinion
Occupy New School?
Policing and OWS: A Think Tank Discussion
Glenn Beck, Prophet?
Spirit of ’76: Occupy Philadelphia, Voicelessness, and the Challenge of Growing the Occupy Wall Street Movement
Mayor Bloomberg versus Occupy Wall Street
The Clear, Present and Positive Goals of Occupy Wall Street
Toward Sustainable Occupations by Amateurs: Reflections on the OWS – Shiroto no Ran Flying Seminar
The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street: Unhappy Warriors
NYPD, “Vagrants” and Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Mall Street
OWS and the Recovery of Democracy
The View From Zuccotti Park: On the Post-Political Thrust of OWS
Occupy Wall Street, The New School and The Flying Seminar
A Flying Seminar and Additional Reflections on the GOP, BHO and OWS
The Republicans, Obama, and Occupy Wall Street
Elections in Poland: More than the Lesser of Two Evils?
In Review: OWS, The Ground Zero Occupation
Our Heroes? Responsibility and War
Things Come Together: Occupy Wall Street, Solidarity, Elections and Khodorkovsky
A Hunger Strike in Albanian Mines: A Quest for Justice and Sound Public Policy
Slacktivism Matters
A Specter is Haunting the Powers That Be: Thinking about Korea while Looking at Wall Street
The People Should Lead: The Meaning of the Occupy Wall Street Movement
The Megapower Elite
Two Deaths
Problems with Polling
Against “Tax Loopholes”?
Teaching the Classics: Reflections of an Ex-Marxist Wannabe
Civil Protest in Israel: Reflections of a Science Fiction Fan
Can Washington Matter? The Case Against the Supercommittee
New York, N.Y., September 11, 2011
President Barack Obama: There is Method to his Madness
Forgetting 9/11
In Review: On Labor Day
Does Freedom Trickle Down?
In Review: Cornel West, Barack Obama and the King Memorial
Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial: “I Have a Dream”
Who Won the Libyan war?
In Review: Democracy and Art for Art Sake (Without Elitism)
Two Forms of (Political) Fallibilism
DC Week in Review: The American Political Landscape
Have You Ever Been Experienced?
Thinking like a Terrorist
DC Week in Review: Democracy in Crisis
Haiti Reporters
Bipartisanship’s Last Stand: What does the Debt Deal mean for Legislators?
The Tents Movement Uprising in Israel
Truth and Politics and The Crisis in Washington
Loading the Debt Problem onto the Backs of the Middle Class
The Suckers March: Show Us the Cuts
Haiti: Resilience against Hopelessness
Means Testing: The GOP’s Surprising Class Warfare
Pushing Back Against the Right’s Narrative on the Budget
Red Jobs, Blue Jobs
Uruguay at the Crossroads: No Justice without Development
American Fascism?
DC Week in Review: Democracy and Diversity and Free Public Action
Iran: The Meaning of Free Politics
Who is an American? Reflections on Jose Antonio Vargas
DC Week in Review: Two Cheers for Hypocrisy!
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: A Play in Three Acts?
What do Mormons, Muslims, Atheists, Gays, and Lesbians Have in Common?
What’s in a Name? Or, the Political Significance of Elmer
Marriage, Equality, and Dignity
Medicare: Redux or Redo?
DC Week in Review: War and Peace
Obama on Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal
Atrocity and Epistemology: Cruel Claims in Troubled Times
The Show Must Go On
The Weiner Follies: The Personification of Politics
DC Week in Review: DSK and the Presumption of Guilt
Grace Lee Boggs’s The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Elections in Peru, the Runoff
Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Presumed Innocence
Letter from Paris: Thinking about the Middle East, North Africa and Central Europe
Memorial Day Reflections
DC Week in Review: Thinking about Public and Private at 37,000 Feet
Jürgen Habermas on Power to the Polls
Reflections on President Obama’s Speech on the Middle East and North Africa
Two Slaves and the Capacity for Indignation
DC Two Weeks in Review: Obama Kills Osama! Victory! The War on Terror is Over! Let’s Think.
Easy Targets
Junk Politics
Positive Prospects in Tunisia and Egypt
Left, Right and the Creative Center: Understanding the Political Landscape in the Age of Obama
Barack Obama and Political Transformation
President Obama on Taxing and Spending, and the American Center
The Tea Party is No Thing
DC Week in Review: A Post of Laughter and Forgetting
Live from Gaza
DC Week in Review: Libya and Emotional Politics
War Games
Anger, Hate, Demonization, Villains, and Politics
Emotions and Politics
Obama’s Speech on Libya
Libya and the Mission Creep I Hope For
President Obama in Brazil: A View from Brazil
Institutionalized Racism?
Revolution in Egypt?
The Return of Revolutions
DC Week in Review: Civility Matters
2011: Youth, not Religion / Spontaneity, not Aid
The Counter-Power of Civil Society in the Middle East
Hate Speech or Biting Political Provocation?
Libertarianism versus Workers’ Rights in Wisconsin
Egypt: Hope against Skepticism
Workers’ Rights and Democracy in Madison
The Wisconsin Protests: Cairo on the Isthmus?
A Baffling Exodus in Tunisia: Exit or Voice or Both?
Who Lost Egypt?
Democracy, Israel and Egypt
The Week in Pre and Re-view: Revolution in Egypt and Beyond
Tunisia and Egypt: Questioning Insurrections
Egypt, Squaring the Circle: A View from Poland and South Africa
Obama and Egypt
Revolutionary Failure in Egypt?
Week in Review: Egypt, Glenn Beck and Democratic Transition
Beck and Call
The Hungarian Shock: The Transition from Democracy?
DC Week in Review: Egypt, The State of the Union, Between Past and Future
Egypt Considered Deliberately
Transition to Democracy in the Arab World?
Obama vs. Ryan vs. Bachmann
WikiLeaks and the Politics of Gestures
Security versus Democracy in America
DC Year in Review: Democracy in America
Time to Face Facts
Politically Correct
DC Week in Review: Democratic Ideals and Realities
The Democratic Party’s Over?
The New York Times in the Americas
Plutocracy in America
Opposition and Truth
Means without Ends?
In Johannesburg: The Struggle for Democracy all Over Again
Have we Found the Conservative Intellectuals?
Against Paranoia
Where are the Conservative Intellectuals?
Political Paranoia Threatens Healthy Democracy Here and Globally
From Liu Xiabo: A Seed of Strength for Chinese Political Protesters
The Constitution and American Political Debate
Politically Weighted Courts in Turkey “Bad News” for Democracy
Clear and Present Danger?
The Far, Far Right Battles Reason with Fear-Mongering
The Health Care Debates Rages: the Sleeping Elephant Rears its Head