In his book Moneymakers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious Counterfeiters, author Ben Tarnoff tells the story of three particularly successful fraudsters in United States history. Owen Sullivan (c. 1720-1756), Daniel Lewis (1788-1820), and Samuel Upham (1819-1885) each became a master of financial forgery and general bamboozlement. Zócalo recently caught up with Tarnoff via email to ask him few questions…
During the protests in Iran in 2009, Internet idealists saw the possibility for peaceful, Twitter-based regime change in oppressive societies. But Evgeny Morozov argues in his book, The Net Delusion, that the reality is that social media can be used to oppress as well as rebel. In advance of Morozov’s appearance at Zócalo on February 16th, we asked scholars in the field whether what happened recently in Tunisia and Egypt was thanks to the Internet or in spite of it.
by Colin Kielty
John Scott-Railton is a doctoral student at UCLA’s School of Public Affairs—where he spends virtually all of his spare time running a Twitter page dedicated to airing voices from the protests that broke out across Egypt on January 25th. Using a Blackberry and his laptop microphone, Railton has been relaying text, audio, and video messages from Egyptians on the ground to audiences both at home and abroad…
by Deanna Neil
In 1985, John Malpede–a director, actor, activist, and writer–founded the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), the first performance group in the nation comprised primarily of homeless and formerly homeless people…
Jeffrey Alexander, a sociology professor at Yale and co-director of its Center for Cultural Sociology, studies politics, but not with the usual metrics of polls, bills passed, and votes won. Instead, he focuses on “the cultural, the symbolic, the aesthetic, the rhetorical,” he said. “When you do this kind of work, and you talk about emotions and images, people often say that you can’t talk about the real hard stuff, like power.” In The Performance of Politics: Obama’s Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power
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