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Nov 4, 2024 | 
currentpub.com | Geoffrey Kurtz
We don’t yet know which candidates will win election to Congress or the Presidency. But an election’s results are not the same thing as its meaning. We already know a lot about what this year’s U.S. elections mean, what they signify and portend. Here are six thoughts. 1. Presidential elections matter too much: They loom so large in our consciousness as to misshape our shared political life.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Geoffrey Kurtz
Advanced search Perspectives on Political Science Volume 53, 2024 - Issue 4 Submit an article Journal homepage Full Article Figures & data Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Read this article /doi/full/10.1080/10457097.2024.2401748?needAccess=true Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure Statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author. Log in via your institution Access through your institution Log in to Taylor & Francis Online Log in...
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
frontporchrepublic.com | Geoffrey Kurtz
We’ve got a few weeks to go until Election Day. Small-d democrats will generally agree about what a citizen should do on that thrilling (or terrifying, or just trying) day: vote. But what, on any other day of the year, is a citizen’s responsibility? Of what activities aside from voting does democratic citizenship consist? Political theorists often answer: deliberation. As Ryan R.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
currentpub.com | Geoffrey Kurtz
Geoffrey KurtzGeoffrey Kurtz teaches political science and urban studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY). His recent essays have appeared in Front Porch Republic and Public Seminar. Altered vistas, unexpected hopeIt’s not just the Constitution that haunts us
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
currentpub.com | Geoffrey Kurtz
It’s not just the Constitution that haunts usKeeping the Republic: A Defense of American Constitutionalism by Dennis Hale and Marc Landy. University Press of Kansas, 2024. 280 pp., $54.99. What constitutes a political community? What shapes it and gives it character, making it not merely a fortified zone or a marketplace but a relationship among citizens?
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Jun 27, 2023 | 
publicseminar.org | Henry M.J. Tonks |Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Geoffrey Kurtz |Mitchell Abidor
Book cover: University of Pennsylvania PressIn March 1990, delegates gathered at New Orleans’s beaux arts Fairmont Hotel for the annual conference of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). Many New Orleanians continued to call the hotel by its midcentury name—“The Roosevelt”—and in the early 1930s, Louisiana’s legendary populist leader Huey Long maintained a lavish suite there. To the conference-goers of 1990, this history was freighted with significance.
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Jun 21, 2023 | 
publicseminar.org | Shweta Nandakumar |Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Geoffrey Kurtz |Mitchell Abidor
Visitors to the 2022–23 Kochi-Muziris Biennale pose with wall text. Image credit: Shutterstock / Abie DaviesI was excited and nervous to attend the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022–23 earlier this year. For me, the stakes of enjoyment and engagement were personal: not only was this my first ever time attending a biennale, but I’d be doing so in the South Indian state of Kerala.
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Jun 21, 2023 | 
publicseminar.org | Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Geoffrey Kurtz |Mitchell Abidor |Igor Torbakov
In Episode 9 of Multi-Verse, poet J. Mae Barizo reads and discusses her poem “Sunday Women on Malcolm X Boulevard.” Barizo explores the rhythms of the body, wildfires near and far, and the intimate power of the couplet, in a conversation with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham. “Sunday Women on Malcolm X Boulevard” is part of J. Mae Barizo’s second poetry collection, Tender Machines, published in May 2023 with Tupelo Press.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
publicseminar.org | Selin Gumrukcu |Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Geoffrey Kurtz |Mitchell Abidor
Istanbul, Turkey, May 6, 2023: Supporters of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the presidential candidate of the Nation Alliance and chairman of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) at the Great Istanbul Rally. Credit: tolga ildun / ShutterstockThe 2023 Turkish elections, held on the centennial of the Turkish Republic, carried significant symbolic importance.
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Jun 13, 2023 | 
publicseminar.org | Irena Grudzińska-Gross |Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Geoffrey Kurtz |Mitchell Abidor
Prof. Jan Grabowski, University of Ottawa. Credit: Adrian Grycuk / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 PL)On May 30, in Warsaw, the Polish Sejm deputy Grzegorz Braun interrupted a lecture by Professor Jan Grabowski, a historian reporting on the state of research about the World War II extinction of Polish Jews. Braun climbed onto the rostrum, threatening Grabowski, and trashed the microphone and speakers—as if not only physically, but also symbolically taking away the lecturer’s voice.
