Carl Landauer

Oct 18, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Achilles Kallergis |Carl Landauer |Henry M.J. Tonks |T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Homesteader repairing a fence (ca. 1940) | Lee Russell /  Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Collection, Library of CongressHere’s a tip from the US political playbook: if your campaign is struggling, if you don’t have actual policies but “concepts of a plan,” if you secretly or openly wish for the “good ol’ days” when black people did “black jobs,” if you “forgot” to declare the lavish perks from the Turks … just blame it on the immigrant.

Sep 18, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Henry M.J. Tonks |Carl Landauer |John Stoehr |Heather Richardson

Remains of an elephant preserved at the US National Museum | Smithsonian Institution ArchivesAt the Aspen Ideas Climate Summit in spring 2022—one of those gatherings of the well-informed and the well-to-do so beloved by American politicians—Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the House of Representatives, urged Republicans to “take back” their party from Donald Trump.

Sep 6, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Lyndsey Stonebridge |Carl Landauer |Chelsea Ebin

On July 23, 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris reached the threshold of Democratic National Convention delegates that she needed to become the party’s de facto presidential nominee. In the two days since President Joe Biden had ceded the nomination, a diverse party had become re-energized around the 2024 race and its second, historic, multiracial nominee.

Sep 6, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Lyndsey Stonebridge |Val Vinokur |Carl Landauer |Chelsea Ebin

“Destroyed Village, War Front” (1974) | Donald Shaw MacLaughlan / Smithsonian American Art Museum / CC0One of the cruelties of the Iliad is how alive each person is made to appear just before they are killed. That is the point of Homer’s long, detailed lists of Greeks and Trojans: names, deeds, parents, brothers, spouses, children, lovers, skills, bad hair, swift feet, words, and weapons. The poem about mass death insists on human particularity.

Aug 28, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Carl Landauer |Chelsea Ebin |Basak Kus |John Stoehr

Inferno, Canto XXXIV: Dante and Virgil witnessing the gigantic Satan, with his three mouths biting on the sinners Cassius, Judas, and Brutus (ca. 1450) | Priamo della Quercia / Public DomainOver the summer, I committed myself to reading the entirety of Project 2025, a policy document compiled by the Heritage Foundation, with contributions from many veterans of the Trump administration, which I printed out in four thick three-ring binders.