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The TPPI Podcast, Episode 4: The Nazi Roots of October 7: A Conversation with Prof. Matthias Küntzel and Gabriel Noah Brahm Gabriel Noah Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's Israel Initiative, speaks with German political scientist Prof. Matthias Küntzel about the Nazi roots of the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, and about the dangers posed today by Iran. This conversation follows TPPI's webinar of February 7, 2024, “Historians on Ideology and Politics in the 1948 War” with Küntzel, Jeffrey Herf, and Benny Morris, available here: https://youtu.be/2-xT2ePXjfU. The video version of this podcast is available here: https://youtu.be/gQezPnV0kvw For more information about TPPI's Israel Initiative, visit our website here: https://www.telosinstitute.net/israel-initiative/
In the latest podcast of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, TPPI's Mark G. E. Kelly, organizer of the 2024 Telos conference on "Democracy Today?," speaks with Salvator Babones of the University of Sydney about democracy in India, asking him in particular about his sympathetic reading of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A video version of this interview is available here: https://youtu.be/epeq67sOccg
Gabriel Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's Israel initiative, talks with Abe Silberstein, a writer and critic based in New York, whose essays have appeared in the New York Times, Ha'aretz, The Forward, Times Literary Supplement (UK), and Dissent, among other publications. Their discussion focuses on Frantz Fanon and the events of October 7. This conversation follows TPPI's webinar on January 7 on the same subject with Silberstein, Cary Nelson, and Manuela Consonni, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWNDnQtLvLQ
Gabriel Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's Israel initiative, speaks with Prof. Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors, about the role of critical theory in the response within higher education to the Hamas atrocities of October 7. This conversation follows TPPI's webinar on January 7 on the same subject with Nelson, Abe Silberstein, and Manuela Consonni, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWNDnQtLvLQ
Sherman A. Jackson discusses his article "Islam and the Promotion of Human Rights" from Telos 203 (Summer 2023).
Chih-yu Shih discusses his article "Loving Hong Kong: Unity and Solidarity in the Politics of Belonging" from Telos 202 (Spring 2023).
David Pan talks with Stephen Muecke about his article "Belonging in Aboriginal Australia: A Political 'Cosmography,'" from Telos 202 (Spring 2023).
David Pan talks with Matthew Dal Santo about his article "Russia, the Ukraine War, and the West's Empire of Secularization," from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).
John Milbank discusses his article "A Tale of Two Monsters and Four Elements: Variations of Carl Schmitt and the Current Global Crisis" from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).
Paul Grenier discusses his article "Konstantin Krylov's Ethical Theory and What It Reveals about the Propensity for Conflict between Russia and the West" from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).
Miles Yu discusses his article "Escape from Civilization's Predicaments" from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).
Eric Hendriks-Kim discusses his article "The Polemics of China's Counter Cosmopolitanism" from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).
David A. Westbrook discusses his article "From the Ivory Tower to the Football Stadium: A Rueful Response to Michael Hüther" from Telos 200 (Fall 2022).
Michael Hüther discusses his article "Tired of Science?! Notes on the Relationship between University and Society" from Telos 200 (Fall 2022).
Greg Melleuish and Susanna Rizzo discusses their article "Universities: Truth, Reason, or Emotion?" from Telos 200 (Fall 2022)
J. E. Elliott discusses his article "Brand English and Its Discontents: Situating Truth and Value in the University Today," from Telos 200 (Fall 2022)
Richard T. Marcy and Valerie J. D'Erman discuss their article "The Sensemaking and Construction of Political Narratives in Academic Settings," from Telos 200 (Fall 2022)
Xudong Zhang discusses his article "China and the West: Methodologies for Comparison," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).
Sijia Yao discusses her article "Third Term Comparison," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).
Brian Wolfel discusses his article "Thomas Carlyle's Conception of Transcendentalism in Sartor Resartus and Its Application to Theorizing Postliberalism," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).
Karen Thornber discusses her article "Decentering the 'West' and 'China' in China-West Comparison," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).
Ban Wang discusses his article "The Clash of Civilization and World Community: The West and China," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).
Tomáš Sobek discusses his article "Tolerance as Suppressed Disapproval," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).
Telos editors Tim Luke, Mark Kelly, and David Pan discuss their essays on Ukraine and world order from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).
Courtney Hodrick discusses her article "From Neoreaction to Alt-Right: A Schmittian Perspective," from Telos 198 (Spring 2022).
Georges Van Den Abbeele discusses his article "Can the Precariat Be Organized?: The Gig Economy, Worksite Dispersion, and the Challenge of Mutual Aid," from Telos 198 (Spring 2022).
Martin Tomszak discusses his article "'With Desire I Have Desired': Enjoying the Face of the Other as Political Theology: John Caputo and Dorothy Day Situating Hospitality as Divine Encounter," from Telos 198 (Spring 2022).
Vivian P. Y. Lee discusses her article "The City in Flux: Toward an Urban Topology of Hong Kong Cinema," from Telos 197 (Winter 2021).
Xuesong Shao discusses her article "Restoring and Reimagining Socialist-Built Cities: Wang Xiaoshuai's 'Third Front Trilogy,'" from Telos 197 (Winter 2021).
A panel discussion of Timothy W. Luke's new book, The Travails of Trumpification (Telos Press, 2021), with Timothy Luke, David Pan, Fred Siegel, and Mark S. Weiner.
Linus Recht discusses his article "After Desire: Foucault's Ethical Critique of Psychological Man and the Foucauldian Ethos of the Internet Age," from Telos 196 (Fall 2021).
Kyle Baasch discusses his article "Critical Theory in the Flesh: Adorno and Foucault in San Francisco," from Telos 196 (Fall 2021).
Nir Evron discusses his article "Hannah Arendt, Thinking, Metaphor," from Telos 196 (Fall 2021).
Matthew Sharpe discusses his article "Solitaire/Solidaire: Camus, Contemplation, and the Vita Mixta," from Telos 196 (Fall 2021).
Lillian Hingley discusses her article "The Feminine Character: The Allegory of Ibsen's Women in Adorno's Modernist Literary Theory," from Telos 196 (Fall 2021).
Telos editors Mark G. E. Kelly, Adrian Pabst, Marcia Pally, David Pan, and David A. Westbrook discuss the causes of the U.S. failure in Afghanistan and the long-term consequences.
Matthias Schwartz discusses his article "Servants of the People: Populism, Nationalism, State-Building, and Virtual Reality in Contemporary Ukraine," from Telos 195 (Summer 2021).
Telos Editor David Pan talks with Jay Gupta, Mark G.E. Kelly, and Timothy W. Luke about the changing character of the public sphere.
Aryeh Botwinick discusses his article "Contra Originalism: The Elusive Text," from Telos 195 (Summer 2021).
Kiran Sridhar discusses his article "Russia's Hybrid Warfare Strategy and How to Combat It," from Telos 193 (Winter 2020).
Adam K. Webb discusses his article "Supranational Governance and the Problem of the 'Dignified Constitution,'" from Telos 195 (Summer 2021).
Marcin Skladanowski discusses his article "Criticism of Western Liberal Democracy by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'," from Telos 193 (Winter 2020).
Antonio Lecuna discusses his article "Populism in Venezuela: The Nature of Chavismo," from Telos 195 (Summer 2021).
Beau Mullen discusses his article "Turmoil in Egypt: Faith, Nationalism, and the Apparent Inadequacies of Liberalism," from Telos 194 (Spring 2021).
Michael Millerman discusses his article "The Ethnosociological and Existential Dimensions of Alexander Dugin's Populism," from Telos 193 (Winter 2020).
Edward Hadas discusses his article "Three Rival Versions of Monetary Enquiry: The Ideologies of Money," from Telos 194 (Spring 2021).
Telos Editor David Pan talks with Jay A. Gupta, Mark G. E. Kelly, and Timothy W. Luke about the January 6th US Capitol riot.
Rabab Kamal discusses her article "The Curious Case of Islamic Reform: Why the Concept of Holy Violence Remains Disputed and How Nonviolent Islamism Is More Than Problematic," from Telos 194 (Spring 2021).
Timothy W. Luke discusses the new edition of his book Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society (Telos Press, 2020).
David A. Westbrook discusses his article "Social Capitalism: A Descriptive Sketch," from Telos 194 (Spring 2021).
F. Cartwright Weiland discusses his article "Reflections of a Rapporteur" from Telos 192 (Fall 2020).
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