Week of March 4

• Politics
  If Sanders Wants to Lead the Democratic Party…

  Jeffrey C. Isaac

  Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington
  The Speech that Mike Bloomberg Should Have Given Last Week

  Jeffrey K. Tulis

  Professor of Government and Law, University of Texas at Austin
  Health Care & the Dangers of Demanding the Impossible

  Leo Casey

  Executive Director of the Albert Shanker Institute
• Democracy
  Hong Kong on the Brink

  Jeffrey Wasserstrom

  Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine
  Must A Leader Not Be Above the Law?

  Jeffrey S. Librett

  Professor of German at the University of Oregon
  Ripped From the Headlines

  Claire Potter

  Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
• Culture
  Lao-tzu, Plato, and Parasite

  David Lay Williams

  Professor of Political Science at DePaul University and author of The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx (Princeton, 2024)
  Jerome Robbins, Montgomery Clift, and the Origins of “West Side Story”

  Julia Foulkes

  Professor of history at The New School of Public Engagement
  Fat Activism

  Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young