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

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Curated Essays for the

Week of May 15

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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