On May 2, 2023, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel on the American Constitution and the Left at New York University. The panelists were Erin Hagood (Platypus), Daniel Lazare (writer at the Weekly Worker, author of The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution is Paralysing Democracy), and Caleb Maupin (Center for Political Innovation). The panel was moderated by Platypus member Oliver Chasan. An edited transcript follows.
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On January 13 and 22, 2023, Platypus Affiliated Society member Daniel Rudin interviewed Joel Rocamora, formerly a candidate member of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
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On June 11, 2025, Platypus Affiliated Society member Ethan Cole interviewed Neel, the National Mobilizing Secretary and the South Carolina Party Chair of the Labor Party, which was founded in the United States in 2024.
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Zoomers are not having sex. Sexual activity among young people is lower than ever. The expansion of online hook-up and dating apps has not changed this trend. While around 50% of 18- to 29-year-olds reported using dating apps in 2020, Generation Z seems poised to continue the decline of sexual activity since the mid-20th century. Really, this extends to all social activity: we drink less, go out less, transgress less, and socialize less than our parents and grandparents.
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The LGBT “community” has long grappled with internal fractures, particularly in relation to the distinction between sexuality and gender identity. The presumption that those who love non-traditionally and those who orient their gender non-traditionally share unified political interests has always been tenuous.
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