Issues for the week of October 16, 2019 - Public Seminar

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Week of October 16

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Capitalism
First Week New Issue
Senior Citizens as “Silver Surfers”
Teresa Ghilarducci
Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Chair of Economics, New School for Social Research
Financing Medicare for All
Duncan Foley
Leo Model Professor of Economics, The New School for Social Research
I Ain’t Gonna Work on Merritt’s Farm No More
Matthew Ford
Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, State University of New York-Stonybrook.
The Clerk Problem
Michael Zakim
History Department, Tel Aviv University
Nationalism
First Week New Issue
Why John Dewey Should Matter to Historians
David Hollinger
Preston Hotchkis Professor Emeritus, Department of History, UC Berkeley
Are American Indians Part of a United States National History?
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Professor of History, University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill
National Identities, Popular Histories
Claire Potter
Contributing Editor, Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History, The New School for Social Research
On These Truths
Jill Lepore
David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History,
Harvard University
War
First Week New Issue
Local Trust and the Syrian Withdrawal
Jake Davis
Marine Corps veteran and private security expert.
Behrouz Boochani and the Biopolitics of the Camp
Dimitris Vardoulakis
Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy Department at Western Sydney University.
A Kurdish Paradox in Turkey’s Wine Country
Joseph Lombardo
Senior Analyst at TDI Compliance