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‘Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without being convicted of anything.’
Jacqueline Rose on meeting Benjamin Netanyahu.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jacqueline Rose on meeting Benjamin Netanyahu.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jacqueline Rose · When the Messiah Comes: When I met Netanyahu
Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 1:32 PM
‘Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without being convicted of anything.’
Jacqueline Rose on meeting Benjamin Netanyahu.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jacqueline Rose on meeting Benjamin Netanyahu.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I'm delighted to be a part of the Vermont Humanities Winter Series (virtual). I'll be speaking on "American Niceness: From Plymouth Rock to Standing Rock" on Feb 11th. Join us! www.vermonthumanities.org/event/250th-...
American Niceness: From Plymouth Rock to Standing Rock
Although it often goes unnamed as a pattern of behavior, niceness pervades the assumptions, discourses, and the everyday conduct of and about Americans. But how and when did Americans become associate...
www.vermonthumanities.org
January 7, 2026 at 9:02 PM
I'm delighted to be a part of the Vermont Humanities Winter Series (virtual). I'll be speaking on "American Niceness: From Plymouth Rock to Standing Rock" on Feb 11th. Join us! www.vermonthumanities.org/event/250th-...
I'm happy to share a new essay, "Astrological Speculation on Wall Street" in the Journal of Cultural Economy (2026). It's part of a forthcoming special issue on "Enchantment in the History of Capitalism." Here's the link that gives full access for a limited time. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XSXCF...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I'm happy to share a new essay, "Astrological Speculation on Wall Street" in the Journal of Cultural Economy (2026). It's part of a forthcoming special issue on "Enchantment in the History of Capitalism." Here's the link that gives full access for a limited time. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XSXCF...
Professor Emerita Claire Kahane returns to Buffalo on May 28th to launch her memoir "Nine Lives: From Fifties Rebel to Feminist Critic." She'll be in conversation with philosopher Carolyn Korsmeyer at Hallwalls. Reception, 6:30pm, and event 7:30pm. Don't miss it! www.hallwalls.org/perflit/6659...
Claire Kahane in conversation with Carolyn Korsmeyer - 5/28/25
Join us at Hallwalls for an evening with author and critic Claire Kahane in conversation with novelist and philosopher Carolyn Korsmeyer discussing Kahane's new memoir Nine Lives: My Risky Road from F...
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May 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Professor Emerita Claire Kahane returns to Buffalo on May 28th to launch her memoir "Nine Lives: From Fifties Rebel to Feminist Critic." She'll be in conversation with philosopher Carolyn Korsmeyer at Hallwalls. Reception, 6:30pm, and event 7:30pm. Don't miss it! www.hallwalls.org/perflit/6659...
Does anyone know when birth times started to appear on US birth certificates? Both my parents have their exact time of birth on theirs from the early 1940s. I'm also wondering if there are regional variations.
March 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Does anyone know when birth times started to appear on US birth certificates? Both my parents have their exact time of birth on theirs from the early 1940s. I'm also wondering if there are regional variations.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested that the U.S. intends to deport Khalil, who holds a green card and is in this country legally.
Relatedly, the State Department is applying AI to a McCarthy-era antisemitic law in order to cancel visas of foreign students who it determines to be “pro-Hamas.”
Relatedly, the State Department is applying AI to a McCarthy-era antisemitic law in order to cancel visas of foreign students who it determines to be “pro-Hamas.”
State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 law that targeted Jews
Jewish Holocaust survivors suspected of being Soviet sympathizers were subject to the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act.
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March 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested that the U.S. intends to deport Khalil, who holds a green card and is in this country legally.
Relatedly, the State Department is applying AI to a McCarthy-era antisemitic law in order to cancel visas of foreign students who it determines to be “pro-Hamas.”
Relatedly, the State Department is applying AI to a McCarthy-era antisemitic law in order to cancel visas of foreign students who it determines to be “pro-Hamas.”
I just read through SB 1 (the higher education destruction act) in Ohio and not only does it weaken unions, and destroy DEI, but it requires all faculty to post their syllabi publicly with their contact info. It's setting up faculty to be bullied and harassed. 1/2
March 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I just read through SB 1 (the higher education destruction act) in Ohio and not only does it weaken unions, and destroy DEI, but it requires all faculty to post their syllabi publicly with their contact info. It's setting up faculty to be bullied and harassed. 1/2
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To close our latest issue, Professor Jacqueline Rose asks what nineteenth-century literary writing, and especially Mary Shelley’s relatively unknown novel 'Valperga', can teach us about the crisis facing the humanities today.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...
February 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
To close our latest issue, Professor Jacqueline Rose asks what nineteenth-century literary writing, and especially Mary Shelley’s relatively unknown novel 'Valperga', can teach us about the crisis facing the humanities today.
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...
Read at: 19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1...