Justin Joque

3 weeks ago | publicseminar.org | David Williams |John Stoehr |Justin Joque |Katherine Kelaidis

The Raising of Lazarus (1619) | Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) / Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public DomainElon Musk may or may not be “the world’s richest man” these days, depending on the wildly fluctuating value of his Tesla car company, a target for those protesting Musk’s “move fast, break stuff” approach to downsizing the federal bureaucracy through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Jun 10, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Alex Rossen |Justin Joque |Mitchell Abidor |Ihar Babkou

(1953) | Martin Manhoff / Public domainThe twilight of the Soviet Union marked more than the demise of a major global superpower. It also marked a major paradigm shift for one of the most prominent ideologies of the last century: Marxism. When the dust settled after Stalin’s death, new types of Marxist and leftist movements fragmented in many different directions.

Mar 25, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Justin Joque |Liviu Chelcea |Claire Potter |Joscelyn Jurich

Sueño No. 1: “Articulos eléctricos para el hogar” (1950) | Grete Stern / Public domainHis daughter’s senior thesis seems to have cut Bill Ackman to the quick. She’d gone to Harvard, just like him. But his thesis, submitted in 1988, critiqued the university’s admission quotas and their impact not just on access to education (in his study, for Jewish students in the 1920s and Asian American students in the 1980s) but on who achieves “elite status” in American society.