JEFFREY C. GOLDFARB is the Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of dozens of articles and eight books, including Civility and Subversion: the Intellectual in Democratic Society (Cambridge University Press, 1998), which provides the theoretical guidelines for the practices of Deliberately Considered. He has studied, historically and comparatively, the conditions and consequences of free public life, with special focus on Central Europe and North America. In recent years he has been studying this problem in Israel – Palestine. He has also worked to link his theoretical endeavors to practical action in supporting free public life. For his public and intellectual work in Central Europe, Goldfarb was awarded the Solidarity Medal from the Polish government, presented by former President Lech Walesa. For a more complete bio see my page.
Recently PublishedContributions - Deliberately Considered: 2010 – 2013
January 7th, 2014 - Aristide Zolberg, June 14, 1931 - April 12, 2013
September 19th, 2013 - Obama on Remembering Jobs and Freedom: Three Cheers for Obama?
September 8th, 2013 - Obama on Syria
September 1st, 2013 - Civil Society in Tunisia: The Arab Spring Comes Home to Roost (Introduction)
August 26th, 2013 - An Interview of Zygmunt Bauman: Introduction
August 22nd, 2013 - Academies of Hatred - Part 2: Introduction
August 17th, 2013 - Academies of Hatred – Part 1: Introduction
August 14th, 2013 - The Bauman Affair: A Clear and Present Danger to Democracy and Academic Freedom in Poland
August 12th, 2013 - Reflections on the Protests in Bulgaria
July 30th, 2013 - Letter to the President of Turkey
July 11th, 2013 - Summertime and the Posting is Slowing: Notes on Egypt, and on Obama, the NSA and Snowden, and the Social Condition and the Ironies of Consequence
July 5th, 2013 - Syria: Despair, Tragedy and Hope
June 14th, 2013 - Obama’s Dragnet: Speech versus Action
June 11th, 2013 - Obama’s National Security Speech: The Politics of a Big Thing
June 7th, 2013 - Commencement: Principle Practiced at The New School for Social Research
May 24th, 2013 - An Everyday New York Masterpiece: The Inconspicuous, Understated, Wise, 9/11 Memorial of the Union Square Subway Station
May 11th, 2013 - Some Partial, Preliminary & Unfashionable Thoughts Toward Reassessing the 2003 Iraq War: Introduction
May 9th, 2013 - No Exit? Israel - Palestine
May 3rd, 2013 - Aristide Zolberg, June 14, 1931 - April 12, 2013
April 26th, 2013 - Hannah and Me: Introduction
April 24th, 2013 - Hannah and Me: Understanding Politics in Dark Times
April 24th, 2013 - Reviewing Hannah Arendt, the Movie; Thinking about the Boston Marathon Bombing, Ary Zolberg and Ed Gruson
April 22nd, 2013 - My Arrest in Poland and the Ironies of Consequence
April 18th, 2013 - Spring Break with Daniel Dayan: the politics of small things meets the politics of even smaller things
April 15th, 2013 - Political Repression in Poland: Ewa Wójciak and the Eighth Day Theater
April 10th, 2013 - Israel Against Democracy: Introduction
April 8th, 2013 - The Personal and Political Significance of Political Satire
April 3rd, 2013 - Peace Writ Small: Introduction
March 28th, 2013 - Between Principle and Practice (Part 2): The New School for Social Research
March 18th, 2013 - Between Principle and Practice (Part I): Obama and Cynical Reasoning
March 11th, 2013 - Peace and the Social Condition: Introduction
March 8th, 2013 - Peace and the Social Condition: Barack Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize
March 8th, 2013 - The President and the Private, and the Atomic Bomb: Responding to Clifton Truman Daniel's Mission to Japan
March 1st, 2013 - Overhearing in the Public Sphere: An Introduction
February 24th, 2013 - Climate Change and the Art of Protest
February 20th, 2013 - Class Matters: The Not So Hidden Theme of the State of the Union
February 13th, 2013 - Moving the Center Left on Issues Foreign and Domestic: Anticipating the State of Union Address
February 11th, 2013 - Introduction to “On Un-publics”
February 8th, 2013 - Zero Dark Thirty on Super Bowl Sunday
February 4th, 2013 - Guns and the Art of Protest: Thinking about What is to be Done on the Left
February 1st, 2013 - Against Cornell West / For Barack Hussein Obama: MLK’s Bible, the Inauguration and the Left
January 23rd, 2013 - Barack Obama: Equality, Diversity and the American Transformation
January 21st, 2013 - The Social Condition, Religion and Politics in Israel
January 7th, 2013 - Happy New Year: Hope Against Hopelessness for the New Year 2013
January 1st, 2013 - After Newtown: A Discussion about Gun Controls and Popular Culture
December 18th, 2012 - After Newtown: A Dialogue on the Left
December 17th, 2012 - Another Day, Another Gun Massacre
December 15th, 2012 - The Social Condition
December 13th, 2012 - The Reagan Revolution Ends! Obama’s Proceeds!
December 8th, 2012 - Lincoln: Art and Politics
December 3rd, 2012 - Introducing an Earlier Response to Spielberg’s Film Making: How to be an Intelligent Anti-American
November 30th, 2012 - How to be an Intelligent Anti-American
November 30th, 2012 - Truth Defeats Truthiness: Election 2012
November 16th, 2012 - Coming Home: Demography + Vision = the Re-election of Barack Obama
November 14th, 2012 - At Home, Abroad: Election Day
November 9th, 2012 - Thinking About the Storm and Political Culture: An Introduction to my Solidarity Lecture
October 31st, 2012 - Reinventing Democratic Culture: Then and Now
October 31st, 2012 - Going Abroad, Thinking of Home: Personal Reflections about the Elections
October 25th, 2012 - A Debate About Nothing: Barack Obama v. Mitt Romney (with the Assistance of Jerry Seinfeld)
October 23rd, 2012 - Obama Wins?
October 22nd, 2012 - Romney Loses!
October 17th, 2012 - A Dialogue on Politics, Anti-Intellectuals and Ideologues on the Occasion of the Ryan–Biden Debate
October 15th, 2012 - Biden Wins: So What?
October 12th, 2012 - On “Don’t Mess with Big Bird”
October 8th, 2012 - Romney Wins! So What?
October 4th, 2012 - Romney – Ryan on Poverty: A Question and Exchange
October 3rd, 2012 - On Cultural Freedom: An Exploration of Academic Life in Israel, Pakistan and the U.S.
September 28th, 2012 - Academic Freedom Attacked in Israel
September 25th, 2012 - The President’s Speech: Citizenship and the American Story
September 24th, 2012 - Obama’s Acceptance Speech: Deliberately Re-Considered
September 21st, 2012 - The Clash of Civilizations and Class Warfare: The Videos
September 19th, 2012 - 9/11: A Post on Memory and Forgetting
September 11th, 2012 - A Quick Judgment on Obama’s Acceptance Speech and the Democratic Convention
September 7th, 2012 - The News from Charlotte: The First Two Days of the Democratic National Convention
September 6th, 2012 - Digital Events: Media Rituals in the Digital Age (Introduction)
September 3rd, 2012 - Conservative Principles vs. Conservative Practices: A Continuing Discussion
August 28th, 2012 - Reflections on an Irony of American Conservatism: More on the Ryan Nomination
August 24th, 2012 - Ideology Once Again: Between Past and Future
August 21st, 2012 - Paul Ryan: Ideologist-in-Chief (Obama Wins!)
August 14th, 2012 - Politics as an End in Itself: Occupy Wall Street, Debt and Electoral Politics
August 10th, 2012 - Politics as an End in Itself: New Media and the Persistence of OWS
August 8th, 2012 - Politics as an End in Itself: The Arab Spring and The Creation of Independent Publics
August 2nd, 2012 - Politics as an End in Itself: From the Arab Spring to OWS, and Beyond - Part 1
July 27th, 2012 - Fake vs. Fox News: OWS and Beyond (Introduction)
July 19th, 2012 - Fake vs. Fox News: OWS and Beyond
July 19th, 2012 - At Home Abroad, Thinking about Murdoch v. Romney
July 11th, 2012 - Chief Justice Roberts and the Health of the American Body Politic
July 2nd, 2012 - The Greek Election, June 17th, 2012 (Introduction)
June 27th, 2012 - Heat and Light over the Wisconsin Uprising: Cooptation?
June 16th, 2012 - Heat and Light over the Wisconsin Uprising: On Unions
June 15th, 2012 - On Wisconsin
June 6th, 2012 - It’s More Than the Economy, Stupid
June 4th, 2012 - Do Not Democratize Russia: We Will Do It Ourselves (Introduction)
May 31st, 2012 - Do Not Democratize Russia: We Will Do It Ourselves
May 31st, 2012 - OWS and the Arab Spring: The New “New Social Movements”
May 18th, 2012 - Art, Culture and Memory: Conversations with Vera Zolberg (Introduction)
May 12th, 2012 - Art, Culture and Memory: Conversations with Vera Zolberg
May 12th, 2012 - Media Conspiracy? May Day, The New York Times and Fox
May 8th, 2012 - Why Poland? Part 3: Thinking about Jedwabne, Addressing Premature Holocaust Fatigue
April 27th, 2012 - Why Poland? Part 3: Thinking about Jedwabne, Addressing Premature Holocaust Fatigue (Introduction)
April 27th, 2012 - Why Poland? Part 2: Commemorating Auschwitz (Introduction)
April 18th, 2012 - Why Poland? Part 2: Commemorating Auschwitz
April 18th, 2012 - Race and Racism in Everyday Life: Talking about Trayvon Martin
April 13th, 2012 - Why Poland?: Poles and Jews Before the Fall of Communism
April 9th, 2012 - Why Poland?: Poles and Jews Before the Fall of Communism
April 9th, 2012 - The Aggressive Cynicism of Mitt Romney and His Party: A Cynical Society Update Part 2
April 6th, 2012 - A Cynical Society Update: Part 1
March 30th, 2012 - Making Sense of Resistance: An Invitation to a Book Party and Discussion
March 23rd, 2012 - “The Road We’ve Traveled”: A Serious Political Argument
March 16th, 2012 - Mid-Atlantic Reflections: On the Road, The Politics of Small Things and Media
March 13th, 2012 - Between Left and Right: Reflections on the Position of Paul Gottfried
March 4th, 2012 - In Review: Between Left and Right
February 28th, 2012 - For and Against Memory: Poland, Israel-Palestine and the United States (Introduction)
February 21st, 2012 - For and Against Memory: Poland, Israel-Palestine and the United States
February 21st, 2012 - The Conservative Mind = The Reactionary Mind?
February 17th, 2012 - Where are the Conservative Intellectuals? II
February 14th, 2012 - Between Radical Hopes and Practical Projects: Reflections on the Flying Seminar Session with Bill Zimmerman
February 7th, 2012 - The Republican Reality Show: The Rise and Fall of Not Romney
January 27th, 2012 - The State of the Union: Opening the Debate of 2012
January 25th, 2012 - All You Need to Know about the Republican Primary in South Carolina
January 23rd, 2012 - President Obama vs. the Republican Congress
January 20th, 2012 - Thinking about Obama on MLK Day: Governing with Republicans?
January 16th, 2012 - Should Hungary be Excluded from the European Union?
January 12th, 2012 - All You Need to Know about the Republican Primary in New Hampshire
January 12th, 2012 - Between Left and Right: The Contested Center
January 9th, 2012 - Iowa: The Republicans Fall Apart
January 4th, 2012 - New Year’s Message Sent by Former Hungarian Political Dissidents, Budapest, 2nd of January, 2012
January 2nd, 2012 - Hope against Hopelessness for the New Year
December 30th, 2011 - President Barack Obama: Governing with Democrats
December 28th, 2011 - My Big Mistake: The End of Ideology, Then and Now
December 19th, 2011 - Occupy New School?
December 1st, 2011 - Thanksgiving, Kugel, and Cornbread Stuffing
November 23rd, 2011 - Republicans, Revolutionaries and the Human Comedy
November 22nd, 2011 - The Clear, Present and Positive Goals of Occupy Wall Street
November 11th, 2011 - Deliberately Considered 2.0: The Flying Seminar, Occupy Wall Street and Our New Format
October 28th, 2011 - Oct. 29th: OWS Meets Poland’s Self-Limiting Revolution in Conversation with Adam Michnik (Video)
October 26th, 2011 - Oct. 25th: OWS Meets Japanese Anti-Nukers in Conversation with Jonathan Schell (Video)
October 25th, 2011 - Occupy Wall Street, The New School and The Flying Seminar
October 23rd, 2011 - A Flying Seminar and Additional Reflections on the GOP, BHO and OWS
October 21st, 2011 - The Republicans, Obama, and Occupy Wall Street
October 20th, 2011 - In Review: OWS, The Ground Zero Occupation
October 14th, 2011 - Things Come Together: Occupy Wall Street, Solidarity, Elections and Khodorkovsky
October 10th, 2011 - A Specter is Haunting the Powers That Be: Thinking about Korea while Looking at Wall Street
October 3rd, 2011 - Teaching the Classics: Reflections of an Ex-Marxist Wannabe
September 20th, 2011 - New York, N.Y., September 11, 2011
September 12th, 2011 - President Barack Obama: There is Method to his Madness
September 9th, 2011 - In Review: On Labor Day
September 5th, 2011 - In Review: Cornel West, Barack Obama and the King Memorial
August 27th, 2011 - In Review: Democracy and Art for Art Sake (Without Elitism)
August 23rd, 2011 - DC Week in Review: The American Political Landscape
August 15th, 2011 - One Wedding and Two Funerals
August 12th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Democracy in Crisis
August 9th, 2011 - Truth and Politics and The Crisis in Washington
August 1st, 2011 - Making Distinctions: Murdoch, WikiLeaks, and DSK
July 26th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Democracy and Diversity and Free Public Action
July 8th, 2011 - Iran: The Meaning of Free Politics
July 6th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Two Cheers for Hypocrisy!
July 4th, 2011 - Dominique Strauss-Kahn: A Play in Three Acts?
July 1st, 2011 - Marriage, Equality, and Dignity
June 28th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: War and Peace
June 24th, 2011 - Obama on Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal
June 23rd, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Political Imagination, the Definition of the Situation and Fictoids
June 17th, 2011 - Reflections of a Terrorist Suspect
June 15th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: DSK and the Presumption of Guilt
June 10th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Letter from Paris II, Thinking about Egypt, Poland and China with “Skin in the Game”
June 3rd, 2011 - Letter from Paris: Thinking about the Middle East, North Africa and Central Europe
June 1st, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Thinking about Public and Private at 37,000 Feet
May 29th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Words and Deeds
May 22nd, 2011 - Reflections on President Obama’s Speech on the Middle East and North Africa
May 19th, 2011 - DC Two Weeks in Review: Obama Kills Osama! Victory! The War on Terror is Over! Let’s Think.
May 13th, 2011 - DC Forum: The Killing of Osama bin Laden - Part Three
May 9th, 2011 - DC Forum: The Killing of Osama bin Laden - Part Two
May 7th, 2011 - DC Forum: The Killing of Osama bin Laden - Part One
May 6th, 2011 - Osama bin Laden: Thoughts and Questions
May 2nd, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Theater and Politics
April 30th, 2011 - Positive Prospects in Tunisia and Egypt
April 26th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: The Cynical Society and Beyond
April 23rd, 2011 - Left, Right and the Creative Center: Understanding the Political Landscape in the Age of Obama
April 21st, 2011 - Barack Obama and Political Transformation
April 19th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Ryan’s Budget, the President’s Speech and the Tea Party between Two Assassinations
April 16th, 2011 - President Obama on Taxing and Spending, and the American Center
April 14th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: A Post of Laughter and Forgetting
April 8th, 2011 - The Art of the Mural: Judy Taylor, Milan Kundera and Jose Clemente Orozco
April 5th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Libya and Emotional Politics
April 2nd, 2011 - Obama’s Speech on Libya
March 29th, 2011 - Arms and Speech in Libya and Beyond
March 28th, 2011 - A Morning Suggestion for Thinking about Libya
March 28th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Between Past and Future
March 26th, 2011 - Libya and the Mission Creep I Hope For
March 23rd, 2011 - Man Enhances Nature? Reflecting on Two Bridges
March 21st, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Art, My Town, and Japan
March 18th, 2011 - Man versus Nature
March 16th, 2011 - Institutionalized Racism?
March 16th, 2011 - Community Center Cuts and the Closing of an A&P
March 15th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Talk is Not Cheap
March 12th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Civility Matters
March 4th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: The Wisconsin Events
February 25th, 2011 - Libertarianism versus Workers’ Rights in Wisconsin
February 23rd, 2011 - The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same
February 18th, 2011 - The Week in Pre and Re-view: Revolution in Egypt and Beyond
February 14th, 2011 - Obama and Egypt
February 9th, 2011 - Week in Review: Egypt, Glenn Beck and Democratic Transition
February 7th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Egypt, The State of the Union, Between Past and Future
January 31st, 2011 - Transition to Democracy in the Arab World?
January 29th, 2011 - Obama vs. Ryan vs. Bachmann
January 26th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: Obama, no Lincoln, and a few other observations
January 23rd, 2011 - DC Week in Review: The Imagined and the Real Brazil
January 16th, 2011 - The President’s Speech
January 14th, 2011 - Anticipating the State of the Union Address; Looking Back at the Philadelphia Race Speech
January 11th, 2011 - DC Week in Review: In the Wake of the Tucson Massacre
January 9th, 2011 - Bad Politics = Great Art?
January 6th, 2011 - DC Year in Review: Democracy in America
January 2nd, 2011 - Afghanistan War Revisited
December 28th, 2010 - Season's Greetings
December 23rd, 2010 - Time to Face Facts
December 21st, 2010 - Politically Correct
December 20th, 2010 - DC Week in Review: the significance of the politics of small things
December 17th, 2010 - Israel: Jewish and Democratic?
December 16th, 2010 - Human Rights Day
December 14th, 2010 - The power of Afghan women
December 13th, 2010 - DC Week in Review: Democratic Ideals and Realities
December 10th, 2010 - Steve Martin’s serious side
December 8th, 2010 - For Disappointed Democrats, Action is the Answer
December 7th, 2010 - The Democratic Party’s Over?
December 5th, 2010 - DC Week in Review
December 3rd, 2010 - WikiLeaks, Front Stage/Back Stage
November 30th, 2010 - Thanksgiving, Kugel, and Cornbread Stuffing
November 24th, 2010 - DC Week in Review: Thoughts on Recent Replies
November 19th, 2010 - Is the Business of America Business?
November 17th, 2010 - “.Org” or “.Com”?
November 15th, 2010 - Can I be a Pragmatic Pacifist?
November 10th, 2010 - Fact versus “Fictoid” in the Age of Cable
November 9th, 2010 - The Tea Party Goes to Washington: Now What?
November 7th, 2010 - Rand Paul and the Tea Party go to Washington
November 5th, 2010 - Voters have Demanded a Change, Again
November 4th, 2010 - The Results Were Expected
November 3rd, 2010 - Today is a Good Day for the Republicans
November 2nd, 2010 - After Sipping on a Slurpee, Republican Victory Still Likely
November 2nd, 2010 - Obama Hits the Stump for 2010 Candidates
October 31st, 2010 - Obama: “Storyteller in Chief”
October 30th, 2010 - Cultural context is crucial in identity politics
October 29th, 2010 - Have we Found the Conservative Intellectuals?
October 28th, 2010 - Against Paranoia
October 24th, 2010 - Where are the Conservative Intellectuals?
October 19th, 2010 - In Israel: Road Blocks to Peace
October 18th, 2010 - Political Paranoia Threatens Healthy Democracy Here and Globally
October 15th, 2010 - Amusing Ourselves to Life
October 8th, 2010 - In China: Opposition to a Hero
October 7th, 2010 - Obama v. Fox News
October 5th, 2010 - Why Obama’s UW Speech Should Have Made the News
September 29th, 2010 - Coverage of Obama's Recent Speech Disappoints - Again
September 29th, 2010 - The Tea Party Challenges ‘Business as Usual’
September 28th, 2010 - Talking about Cordoba
September 28th, 2010 - The Constitution and American Political Debate
September 26th, 2010 - In Syria: Poetry Salon Provides Release, Freedom
September 24th, 2010 - Politically Weighted Courts in Turkey "Bad News" for Democracy
September 24th, 2010 - The Tragedy of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
September 22nd, 2010 - DC and TCDS: Going Public by Bringing It Home
September 19th, 2010 - Obama’s Dilemna: Responsible or Principled Politics?
September 12th, 2010 - 9 Years Later
September 12th, 2010 - Back in the Ring
September 9th, 2010 - From the Head of State: a Call to Action
September 8th, 2010 - The End of the Iraq War
September 7th, 2010 - Obama on Iraq: Then and Now
September 6th, 2010 - The Tea Party Effect
September 2nd, 2010 - Obama Attempts to Walk a Fine Line in Park51 Debate
August 27th, 2010 - Obama’s Iftar Dinner Speech
August 26th, 2010 - A Matter of Principle
August 25th, 2010 - Park 51 and the Politics of Small Things
August 25th, 2010 - Clear and Present Danger?
August 24th, 2010 - A Proposed Mosque at Ground Zero Prompts Unfounded Debate
August 24th, 2010 - A Tale of Two Justices: Kagan
August 23rd, 2010 - A Tale of Two Justices: Sotomayor
August 23rd, 2010 - The Far, Far Right Battles Reason with Fear-Mongering
August 23rd, 2010 - The Health Care Debates Rages: the Sleeping Elephant Rears its Head
August 23rd, 2010 - The Obama Effect
August 23rd, 2010 - The more things change, the more the stay the same
August 23rd, 2010 - An episode of racial conflict: Gates-Gate
August 23rd, 2010 - Talking about Race in a New World
August 23rd, 2010 - The Wisdom of Youth
August 23rd, 2010 - Looking at Gaza, Remembering Tragedy, Looking for Hope in Small Things.
August 23rd, 2010 - What, when, how: Democrats make strides in policy and process
May 12th, 2010 - Barack Obama: Deliberately Considered
April 13th, 2010
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