Seminars Topics
- The American Presidency
- American Political Development (APD) Ideational Intersectionality & Identity Politics
- American Political Thought (APT)
- APD – Courts & Social Movements
- Writing Politics
- Neos & Isms (combining APD & APT) Also see the Yin-Yang blog beat (featuring Professor O’Brien and Frederic O’Brien, a.k.a. deputy managing editor of the National Review)
1. The (Obama) Presidency
A. Worldview, Ideology, Value and Belief Structure
Worldview
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/obamas-world-view/
Ideology Components
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/obama-inclusivity/
http://ruthobrien.org/obamas-real-legacy-diverse-on-the-bench-trumps-ideology/
Value and Belief Structure
Identity Politics & Intersectionality
http://ruthobrien.org/obamas-cosmopolitan-rainbow-spectrum-splits-into-sects-or-divide-conquer/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/idea-impact/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/idea-impact/the-vortex-vs-black-holes/
Universal Anti-Universalism
http://ruthobrien.org/obamas-not-a-berliner-speech/
Cosmopolitanism
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/
Positive & Multiple Cosmopolitanism or Pantribalism (president forging party coalition with social movements, namely new civil rights, such as LGBT, persons with disabilities, victims of violence, persons with a multitude of identities, including ethnicity)
http://ruthobrien.org/new-civil-rights-disability-rights-the-7-solution/
http://ruthobrien.org/vortex-nexus-and-intersectionality/
http://ruthobrien.org/disability-disaster-debacle/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/uppity-people/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/firebaggers-versus-teabaggers-teap-party/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/democrats-progressive-liberal-divide/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/2016/barack-obama-vs-hillary-clinton/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/the-new-normal-family/
http://ruthobrien.org/obama-chooses-his-battles-on-race/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/lgbter-rights/
http://ruthobrien.org/flap-when-really-a-flip-the-oldest-profession-hate-bombs-lgbters-the-adaaa/
Negative &/or Singular (president protecting existing anti-discrimination policies and social movements from old civil rights categories. Old civil rights identities are singular, protecting those who are discriminated against on account of their race, like being African-American; or their gender, such as being women, girls, or boys; their ethnicity, such as being Latinos/Latinas; or their freedom of religion)
http://ruthobrien.org/obama-chooses-his-battles-on-race/
http://ruthobrien.org/?s=gender
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/sassy/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/neotribalism-war-on-women/neotriabalism/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/neotribalism-war-on-women/
Social-Conservative-Turn-Arounds (e.g. Anti-Anti-Discrimination)
http://ruthobrien.org/now-co-eds-are-male/
http://ruthobrien.org/unleashing-hillary-is-millennium-of-male-rule-enough/
Obama Haters
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/obama-haters-or-denigrators/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/firebaggers-versus-teabaggers-teap-party/
http://ruthobrien.org/slam-a-rama-or-slams-and-scams/
http://ruthobrien.org/republican-schism-over-nativism-benefits-obamacrats/
http://ruthobrien.org/doesnt-john-boehner-remember-cry-baby-newt/
B. President as Leader of National Party (Cosmopolitan Coalition)
1. President as Party Leader (Obamacrats)
http://ruthobrien.org/republican-schism-over-nativism-benefits-obamacrats/
http://ruthobrien.org/aca-obamas-leadership-democratic-saboteurs-gop-tbs/
2. 2012 Election
3. Cosmopolitan Rainbow Coalition (Democratic cultural coalition)
http://ruthobrien.org/what-a-difference-a-difference-makes-for-the-democrats/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/dividing-conquering-cosmopolitan-coalition/
http://ruthobrien.org/obamas-cosmopolitan-rainbow-spectrum-splits-into-sects-or-divide-conquer/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/rainbow-refractions/
http://ruthobrien.org/trying-to-pull-apart-obamas-cosmopolitan-rainbow-coalition/
http://ruthobrien.org/liberals-vs-obama/
C. Governance
I. Leadership & Political Strategies
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/
http://ruthobrien.org/duplicity-disappointment-part-ii/
http://ruthobrien.org/obamas-cosmopolitan-rainbow-spectrum-splits-into-sects-or-divide-conquer/
http://ruthobrien.org/will-president-obama-exhibit-leadership/
http://ruthobrien.org/potus-44-and-the-surveillance-state/
federalism
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/federalism-for-d-progressive-purpose/
http://ruthobrien.org/no-cows-need-apply-one-person-one-vote/
http://ruthobrien.org/obamacare-in-oregon-frontier-federalism-for-participatory-democracy/
http://ruthobrien.org/gun-control-it-isnt-over/
http://ruthobrien.org/no-cows-need-apply-one-person-one-vote/
http://ruthobrien.org/obama-organizing-for-america-and-a-new-social-worldview/
modus operandi, dining room deliberative democracy
http://ruthobrien.org/obamacare-in-oregon-frontier-federalism-for-participatory-democracy/
http://ruthobrien.org/obama-organizing-for-america-and-a-new-social-worldview/
http://ruthobrien.org/dinner-table-democracy/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/obama-foreign-policy/obamas-modus-operandi/
http://ruthobrien.org/barack-and-bob-make-bashar-blink/
http://ruthobrien.org/?s=organizing
http://ruthobrien.org/liberals-vs-obama/
http://ruthobrien.org/out-with-seos-in-with-social-media-thought-leaders/ http://ruthobrien.org/new-civil-rights-disability-rights-the-7-solution/
II. Presidential Functions
Legislator-in-Chief
http://ruthobrien.org/obama-shows-congress-whos-boss/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-vs-congress-2nd-term-conflicts/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obamacare/
http://ruthobrien.org/table-talk-with-barack-as-boehner-falls-off-the-cliff/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/surveillance-state/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/2012-election/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-vs-congress-2nd-term-conflicts/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obamacare/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/2012-election/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/2012-election/
http://ruthobrien.org/the-senate-moves-on-immigration/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/2012-election/
http://ruthobrien.org/the-senate-moves-on-immigration/
3. Bureaucrat-in-Chief
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obamacare/aca-implementation/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obamacare/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/implementing-obamacare/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obamacare/republican-saboteurs/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/obamas-justice-department/
http://ruthobrien.org/3-doors-for-obamacare/
http://ruthobrien.org/taking-care-of-business-obama-style/
http://ruthobrien.org/obama-cunys-state-local-national-international-politics/
http://ruthobrien.org/safe-as-milk-thanks-to-the-fda/
http://ruthobrien.org/liberals-vs-obama/
http://ruthobrien.org/putting-the-affordable-in-affordable-care/
http://ruthobrien.org/aca-obamas-leadership-democratic-saboteurs-gop-tbs/
4. Executive-in-Chief
Executive Action (including federal court actions)
http://ruthobrien.org/barbarians-at-the-gate-roberts-court-ensures-super-pacs-prevai/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/obamas-world-view/obamas-executive-action/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/court/
http://ruthobrien.org/gun-control-it-isnt-over/
http://ruthobrien.org/duplicity-disappointment-part-ii/
http://ruthobrien.org/right-scan-a-difference-between-old-new-civil-rights/
http://ruthobrien.org/obamas-real-legacy-diverse-on-the-bench-trumps-ideology/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/2012-election/
http://ruthobrien.org/the-senate-moves-on-immigration/
http://ruthobrien.org/taking-care-of-business-obama-style/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/diversity-in-the-courts/
NSA, PRISM & Surveillance State
http://ruthobrien.org/non-solution-administration-nsa/
http://ruthobrien.org/surveillance-state-reform-obama-sabotaging-saboteurs/
http://ruthobrien.org/surveillance-state-reform-obama-sabotaging-saboteurs/
http://ruthobrien.org/?s=PRISM
http://ruthobrien.org/potus-44-and-the-surveillance-state/
http://ruthobrien.org/?s=Snowden
http://ruthobrien.org/suits-against-surveillance/
http://ruthobrien.org/secret-courts-make-secret-rulings-about-secrecy/
http://ruthobrien.org/duplicity-disappointment-part-ii/
Guns & Immigration
http://ruthobrien.org/duplicity-disappointment-part-ii/
http://ruthobrien.org/right-scan-a-difference-between-old-new-civil-rights/
http://ruthobrien.org/?s=immigration
5. World Leader
Commander-in-Chief
Chief Diplomat & Foreign Policy Agenda Setter
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/obama-foreign-policy/
http://ruthobrien.org/potus-44-and-the-surveillance-state/
http://ruthobrien.org/obamas-shared-burden-address-before-the-un/
http://ruthobrien.org/3-futures-for-obamas-foreign-policy-table-manners/
http://ruthobrien.org/obamas-shared-burden-address-before-the-un/
http://ruthobrien.org/empires-end/
Full Texts Obama Laws, Federal Regs, Legal Reasoning (e.g. White Papers)
http://ruthobrien.org/hit-hits/full-texts-potential-political-thought/
http://ruthobrien.org/full-text-documents-obama-presidency/
http://ruthobrien.org/obama-addresses-un-full-text/
http://ruthobrien.org/full-text-supreme-court-rulings/
Dodd-Frank https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr4173/text
Obamacare https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr3590/text
Stimulus Package http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr1enr/pdf/BILLS-111hr1enr.pdf
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/12/22/president-signs-repeal-dont-ask-dont-tell-out-many-we-are-one
Legal reasoning – drones http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/020413_DOJ_White_Paper.pdf
Fed reg ADAAA federal contractor affirmative action
My Other Books about President as Legislator-in-Chief or Bureau-Chief in Political Time
1. LAWS: Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act, National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) creating NLRB or the Wagner Act of 1935; Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
PRESIDENTS: Theodore Roosevelt, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D Roosevelt, Harry Truman
Workers’ Paradox: The Republican Origins of the New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935
Post-World War II to 1990
LAWS: Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act of 1973; Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
PRESIDENTS: Dwight D. Eisenhower; Richard M. Nixon; Lyndon Johnson; George Herbert Walker Bush
Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention http://tinyurl.com/jw3hzhz
New Deal & Sixties
LAWS: ADA; Title VII, Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1964; NLRA
PRESIDENTS: Franklin D. Roosevelt; Lyndon B. Johnson
Telling Stories Out of Court: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination http://tinyurl.com/m6lqzuy
Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care http://tinyurl.com/mt235n8
2. APD Ideational Intersectionality & Identity Politics
A. Definitions
Idea impact
http://ruthobrien.org/category/idea-impact/
Obama’s ideology (a non-ideology of inclusivity)
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/obama-inclusivity/
All-encompassing Social Spheres (not liberal private/public sphere dichotomy)
http://ruthobrien.org/?s=sphere
Cosmopolitanism
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/
http://ruthobrien.org/will-president-obama-exhibit-leadership/
B. Intersections – Social Movement Coalition-Building
1. Explanation =
Old Civil Rights (singular; immutable)
http://ruthobrien.org/will-president-obama-exhibit-leadership/
New Civil Rights – (multiple; mutable & immutable characteristics & behaviors)
http://ruthobrien.org/disability-disaster-debacle/
http://ruthobrien.org/same-ol-bible-thumping-in-porterville/
http://ruthobrien.org/new-civil-rights-disability-rights-the-7-solution/
Vortex embodying intersectionality image
http://ruthobrien.org/hit-hits/idea-impact-intersectionality-of-ideas-identites/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/idea-impact/the-vortex-vs-black-holes/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/idea-impact/the-vortex-intersectionality-of-ideas/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/2016/running-republicans/lgbtqers/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/intersectionality-gender-violence/
Positive Conception of Cosmopolitanism or Pantribalism
http://ruthobrien.org/okie-or-arkie-the-absurd-anti-abortion-arkansas-law/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/lgbter-rights/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/the-new-normal-family/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/sassy/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/2016/intersectionality-race-gender-2016/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/2016/intersectionality-gender-sexual-roles/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/2016/hillarys-feminism/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/uppity-people/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/neotribalism-war-on-women/women-feminism/
Negative–War on Women, Religion, Violence & Neotribalism
http://ruthobrien.org/okie-or-arkie-the-absurd-anti-abortion-arkansas-law/
http://ruthobrien.org/putting-the-affordable-in-affordable-care/
http://ruthobrien.org/women-warriors-and-the-war-on-women/
http://ruthobrien.org/women-warriors-and-the-war-on-women-part-ii/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/war-on-women/neotribal/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/war-on-women/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/neotribalism-war-on-women/women-who-are-vocal-refuse-silence/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/neotribalism-war-on-women/neotriabalism/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/neotribalism-war-on-women/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/intersectionality-gender-violence/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/writing-politics/right-wing-intolerance/politics-of-hate/
http://ruthobrien.org/unleashing-hillary-is-millennium-of-male-rule-enough/
My other books that address Ideational & Institutional Intersectionality within Identity Politics
1. Persons with disabilities, LGBTQers, & gender
Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care
2. Persons with disabilities; & class
a. Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
b. Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act
3. Class
Workers’ Paradox: The Republican Origins of the New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935
4. Gender & Sexuality & Violence
Telling Stories Out of Court: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination http://tinyurl.com/m6lqzuy
3. American Political Thought
1. Traditional Political Thought
http://ruthobrien.org/about-2/traditional-american-political-thought/
2. Contemporary American Political Thought
http://ruthobrien.org/syallabi-contemporary-american-political-thought/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/beyond-polling/obamas-impact-in-political-thought/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/obamas-world-view/obama-political-thought/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/writing-politics/thought-leaders-thought-leadership/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/idea-impact/the-vortex-vs-black-holes/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/beyond-polling/obamas-impact-in-political-thought/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/idea-impact/the-vortex-vs-black-holes/
http://ruthobrien.org/hit-hits/idea-impact-intersectionality-of-ideas-identites/
http://ruthobrien.org/hit-hits/narcissistic-idea-consumers/
http://ruthobrien.org/hit-hits/hit-hits-defined/
4. Court & Social Movements from APD Perspective
1. Courts as Institutions
http://ruthobrien.org/full-text-supreme-court-rulings/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/obamas-justice-department/
http://ruthobrien.org/obamas-real-legacy-diverse-on-the-bench-trumps-ideology/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/diversity-in-the-courts/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/court/courts-as-living-institutions/
http://ruthobrien.org/secret-courts-make-secret-rulings-about-secrecy/
2. Law as Policy
http://ruthobrien.org/category/obama-1st-term/court/
http://ruthobrien.org/secret-courts-make-secret-rulings-about-secrecy/
http://ruthobrien.org/can-a-retail-store-pray-the-supreme-court-takes-on-obamacare/
3. Social Movements & law (including civil rights; and civil liberties)
http://ruthobrien.org/?s=civil+rights
http://ruthobrien.org/same-ol-bible-thumping-in-porterville/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/disability-rights/
http://ruthobrien.org/disability-disaster-debacle/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/adaaa/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/lgbter-rights/
http://ruthobrien.org/the-senate-moves-on-immigration/
http://ruthobrien.org/same-sex-marriage-more-strange-bedfellows/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/uppity-people/
http://ruthobrien.org/right-scan-a-difference-between-old-new-civil-rights/
http://ruthobrien.org/can-a-retail-store-pray-the-supreme-court-takes-on-obamacare/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/neotribalism-war-on-women/women-who-are-vocal-refuse-silence/
http://ruthobrien.org/obama-organizing-for-america-and-a-new-social-worldview/
My Books
- Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care http://tinyurl.com/mt235n8
- Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace http://tinyurl.com/jw3hzhz
- Workers’ Paradox: The Republican Origins of the New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935
- Telling Stories Out of Court: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination http://tinyurl.com/m6lqzuy
- Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act http://tinyurl.com/l52p4le
Extra — Writing Politics
http://ruthobrien.org/category/writing-politics/
http://ruthobrien.org/physical-book-archive-manhattan-pbam/
http://ruthobrien.org/obama-organizing-for-america-and-a-new-social-worldview/
http://ruthobrien.org/out-with-seos-in-with-social-media-thought-leaders/
http://ruthobrien.org/hillary-bill-de-blasio-blog-alysis/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/beyond-polling/wikileaks-full-text-documents/
http://ruthobrien.org/jumping-to-the-right-conclusion-again/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/neotribalism-war-on-women/neo-victorian/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/neotribalism-war-on-women/women-who-are-vocal-refuse-silence/
http://ruthobrien.org/category/cosmpolitanism/dividing-conquering-cosmopolitan-coalition/
http://ruthobrien.org/my-new-respect-for-facebook-google-the-new-normal-family-values/
http://ruthobrien.org/double-barrels-and-double-messages/
http://ruthobrien.org/mom-my-teachers-a-robot/
http://ruthobrien.org/occupy-wall-street-should-get-the-buses-rolling-to-chicago/
http://ruthobrien.org/when-all-you-can-do-is-cry/
http://ruthobrien.org/can-a-retail-store-pray-the-supreme-court-takes-on-obamacare/
My edited books or collections that inspired writing politics specialization
- Telling Stories Out of Court: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination http://tinyurl.com/m6lqzuy
- Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act http://tinyurl.com/l52p4le
6. Neos & Isms (combining APD & APT) Also see the Yin-Yang blog beat (featuring Professor O’Brien and Frederic O’Brien, a.k.a. deputy managing editor of the National Review)
