Issues for the week of March 11, 2020 - Public Seminar

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Week of March 11

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Elections

Warren Supporters Have Vowed to Persist

Claire Potter

Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research

Will We Ever Elect a Professor President?

David Perlmutter

Professor and Dean, College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University

The Frustration of Being Elizabeth Warren

Miranda Yaver

Political Scientist and Postdoctoral Scholar in Health Policy and Management at the University of California, Los Angeles

‘Resistance’ Women Loved Elizabeth Warren. Here’s Why Their Groups Didn’t Fight for Her.

Lara Putnam

Professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh

Don’t Cry for Her — Elizabeth Warren!

Sidney Tarrow

Emeritus Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Adjunct Professor, Cornell Law School
Literature

“Our War Would Be With a Virus”

Mark Bibbins

Teaches in the graduate writing program at The New School

On The Hatred of Literature

Jon Baskin

Associate Director, Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism at the New School and founding editor of The Point.
History

When the Networks Prescribed a Dose of Reality for Ailing Soap Operas

Elana Levine

Professor of media, cinema, and digital studies in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The New School’s Forgotten President

Anna Robinson-Sweet

Anna Robinson-Sweet is an associate archivist at The New School Archives and Special Collections