Issues for the week of April 15, 2020 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of April 15

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The Pandemic

Sick From Work

Paul Apostolidis

Associate Professorial Lecturer, Government Department, London School of Economics and Political Science

For the Love of Strangers

Julia Foulkes

Professor of History at The New School

The Coronavirus Time Warp

Eric Weiskott

Associate Professor of English, Boston College

CARES Will Care for Wall Street and Big Business

Lance Taylor

Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development at The New School for Social Research.

Hydroxychloroquine

Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young
Democracy

Hungary Is on the Edge of Dictatorship

Kim Lane Scheppele

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University

The Expressive Antidote to the Trumpist Virus

Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Founding Editor of Public Seminar, Senior Fellow at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, and chair of the Democracy Seminar
Fashion, Emotion and the Self

Sartorial Steersmanship

Otto von Busch

Professor of Integrated Design at The New School

Archives of the Everyday

Ellen Sampson

Artist and material culture researcher; professorial fellow at the School of Fashion, University for the Creative Arts