Week of July 17

• Introduction
  The Worst of Times, the Best of Times

  James Miller

  Professor of Politics and Liberal Studies and Faculty Director of the MA in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism, New School for Social Research
• Featured Essays
  The Need, and the Difficulty, of Collective Apologies & Forgiveness

  Roy L. Brooks

  Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego
  Time Is Out of Joint

  Sergio Infante

  Assistant editor at Foreign Affairs
• Free Speech & Social Change
  Why the Harper’s Letter Got It Wrong

  Nicole Hemmer

  Associate research scholar, Obama Presidency Oral History project, Columbia University
  Why I Didn’t Sign the Harper’s Letter

  Robert Boyers

  Professor of English at Skidmore College, author, and editor of Salmagundi
  A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor

  Joshua T. Katz

  Professor of classics at Princeton University
• Politics
  A Victory in an Unnecessary Battle

  Dwight A. McBride

  President of The New School
  Their Violence and Ours

  William E. Scheuerman

  Professor of Political Science at Indiana University
  What Roger Stone’s Commuted Sentence Tells Us About Trump’s Commitment to Conspiracy

  John Stoehr 

  Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board
  A Monument to Dis-Union

  Steven Stoll

  Professor of history at Fordham University and author of Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
  The U.S. and UK Are a Wrecking Ball Crew Against the Pillars of Internationalism

  Vijay Prashad

  Historian, editor, and journalist
  Instead of Focusing on Russian Bounties to the Taliban, Why Doesn’t the U.S. End the Afghan War?

  Sonali Kolhatkar

  Founder, host, and executive producer of the television and radio show Rising Up With Sonali