Hannah Arendt Center presents:
Blogging and the New Public Intellectual - a Discussion with Tom Goldstein
Sunday, March 9, 2014
BGC (18 West 86th NYC)
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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Tom Goldstein is the Publisher and a regular contributor to the SCOTUSblog, which he co-founded with Amy Howe in 2002. He teaches Supreme Court litigation at Harvard Law School, and previously taught at Stanford Law School as well from 2004-2012. Tom has argued 28 cases before the Supreme Court. Among other recognitions, Tom has been named 1 of the 50 most influential people in Washington, D.C. (GQ); 1 of the 40 most influential lawyers of the past decade and the 100 most influential lawyers in the nation (NLJ); 1 of the 90 greatest Washington, D.C. lawyers of the past 30 years and the leading appellate lawyers in Washington (Legal Times); and 1 of the 30 best lawyers in Washington, D.C. (Washingtonian). Visit the SCOTUSblog here.
This event is free and open to the public. R.S.V.P. to [email protected].
We live in the age of the blog. Public intellectuals and journalists must adapt to short news cycles, short attention spans, new economic models and a flood of competing commentary and information. The rise of blogs may be dangerous insofar as blogs attract like-minded people who only hear one side, but they are extremely powerful as well, insofar as they allow for people to become highly educated about the world by following a few top bloggers.
Blogging democratizes debate even as it erodes the significance of institutional authority. By removing cultural gatekeepers, blogging is changing the tenor of public discourse for the good and the bad. What is undeniable is that a new kind of public intellectual is emerging.
The series on Blogging and the New Public Intellectual, curated by Roger Berkowitz and Walter Russell Mead, will engage an ongoing discussion with the nation’s leading bloggers in politics, history, art, and culture. We will be asking about their experience as bloggers, what they hope to accomplish, and how they work. We’ll discuss the pressures to put content up quickly, to be controversial, and to balance personal opinion with journalistic standards.
Above all, we will analyze the emergence of a new form of political and cultural writing by engaging with the best practitioners of this new and powerful medium.
This event is free and open to the public. R.S.V.P. to [email protected].
We live in the age of the blog. Public intellectuals and journalists must adapt to short news cycles, short attention spans, new economic models and a flood of competing commentary and information. The rise of blogs may be dangerous insofar as blogs attract like-minded people who only hear one side, but they are extremely powerful as well, insofar as they allow for people to become highly educated about the world by following a few top bloggers.
Blogging democratizes debate even as it erodes the significance of institutional authority. By removing cultural gatekeepers, blogging is changing the tenor of public discourse for the good and the bad. What is undeniable is that a new kind of public intellectual is emerging.
The series on Blogging and the New Public Intellectual, curated by Roger Berkowitz and Walter Russell Mead, will engage an ongoing discussion with the nation’s leading bloggers in politics, history, art, and culture. We will be asking about their experience as bloggers, what they hope to accomplish, and how they work. We’ll discuss the pressures to put content up quickly, to be controversial, and to balance personal opinion with journalistic standards.
Above all, we will analyze the emergence of a new form of political and cultural writing by engaging with the best practitioners of this new and powerful medium.