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Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Denis MacShane, a British MP and chairman of the All-Party Commission
of Enquiry into Anti-Semitism, argues that we are now facing an
ideological assault based on hatred of Jews that threatens universal
values, world peace, and even anti-poverty programs and environmental change initiatives. MacShane considers how anti-Semitism has become a
linking mechanism between different extremisms; how it operates in
national party politics and in the European Parliament; and how
Holocaust denial has hardened into an organized ideological position. Globalising Hatred is both a cri de coeur for a new tolerance and an
attempt to throw light on a form of hatred that mobilizes politics
across many continents.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Ehrenreich has turned American optimism on its head in this savvy piece of cultural criticism. She argues that optimism is "the American ideology" and is used to promote growth through capitalism. When institutions demand that their employees not dwell on bad news, real disasters can result from unreadyness. Examples of this are the warnings about terrorism before 9/11 and the reports of New Orleans's vulnerability to weather events. Ehrenreich blames the epidemic of positive thinking for our current economic woes.
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All event-related inquiries can be sent to our Events Coordinator, Mike Giarratano, at events@politics-prose.com. For Children and Teens' Events, contact Gussie Lewis at glewis@politics-prose.com.