Chelsea Ebin

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.

Aug 26, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Chelsea Ebin |Claire Potter |Basak Kus |Dorothy Potter Snyder

, DC (2007) | c.berlit / CC BY-SA 3.0, color adjustedFor the past four decades, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has published policy proposals ahead of presidential elections. The most recent installment of the “Mandate for Leadership” series, published in 2023, is a 900-page collection of essays written by a host of right-wing thinkers and advised by more than fifty conservative organizations that has come to colloquially be known as Project 2025.