Week of May 15

• The Future
  Commencement

  Dwight A. McBride

  President of The New School
  Be Strong

  Eli Zaretsky

  Professor of history at The New School for Social Research
  There is No Future without Openness to the Other

  Lucas Fain

  Philosopher and visiting scholar in the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University
  Brave New Classroom

  Hannah Leffingwell

  PhD candidate in history, Institute of French Studies at New York University
• Politics
  Letter from Glasgow

  Simon Jones

  Reporter based in Glasgow for Politico, Al Jazeera, Le Monde Diplomatique and others
  Who Is Trump Really Protecting During the Coronavirus Crisis?

  Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King
  Bolsonaro’s Regime of Chaos and Fear

  Daniel Peres

  Professor of Philosophy at Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil
  Nevertheless, She Persisted

  Claire Potter

  Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
• Reflections
  Sentencing the Present: Part Two

  Jonathon Catlin, Ayça Çubukçu, Benjamin P. Davis, Stephen Hopgood, Siddhant Issar, Martin Jay, Lissa McCullough and Mohammad Salama