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
Jeffrey C. Isaac is a 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, Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History, The New School for Social Research
Culture
Lao-tzu, Plato, and Parasite
David Lay Williams
Professor of Political Science at DePaul University
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