Issues for the week of March 4, 2020 - Public Seminar

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Week of March 4

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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