Week of May 8

• Reflections
  The Job of Critical Thinking Now

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Professor Emerita, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Studies
  The Rebirth of Tragedy

  Arthur Goldhammer

  Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  Sentencing the Present

  Jonathon Catlin, Andrew Cole, Benjamin P. Davis, Bonnie Honig, Joy James, Mark Kingwell, Vincent Lloyd, Sarah Schulman, Dara Z. Strolovitch and Enzo Traverso
• The Pandemic
  5 Charts that Explain COVID-19 Impacts in NYC

  Timon McPhearson, Ahmed Mustafa, Luis Ortiz, Zbigniew Grabowski, Pablo Herreros Cantis, Christopher Kennedy and Claudia Tomateo Chang
  The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longer View

  John Ehrenreich

  Author, clinical psychologist, and professor emeritus at SUNY Old Westbury
  The Sesame Street Economy

  Janet Roitman

  Professor of Anthropology at The New School
• Politics
  The Business of Disinformation

  Judit Szakács

  Researcher at the Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) at Central European University
  How Dog-Whistle Racism Is Sabotaging the Postal Service

  Amy Traub

  Associate director of policy and research at Demos
  The GOP’s Anti-American Animus

  John Stoehr 

  Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board