Week of August 14

• Featured Essays
  The Rebirth of Tragedy

  Arthur Goldhammer

  Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  Should Governments Have Access to Our Data?

  Jo Guldi and Macabe Keliher
  Pandemic as a Natural Evolutionary Phenomenon

  Joshua Lederberg

  Microbiologist and former president, Rockefeller University
  Time Is Out of Joint

  Sergio Infante

  Assistant editor at Foreign Affairs
• The Covid-19 Syllabus
  The Hidden Structural Racism in the American Response to Public Health Emergencies

  R. Drew Smith

  Co-convener of the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race, professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, director of Metro-Urban Institute
  According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, We Should All Be Wearing Face Masks

  Russ Castronovo

  Director of the Center for the Humanities and Tom Paine Professor of English at UW—Madison
  Fear of Death Amid a Pandemic

  Howard Steele

  Professor and Co-Chair of Clinical Psychology, The New School for Social Research
  Life and Protest in Hong Kong Amid COVID-19

  Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Mark Frazier
  Behind Bars in the Age of Coronavirus

  Phyllis Dietrichson

  Inmate at New York Department of Corrections
  COVID-19 and Protective Face Masks

  Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young
  I, Face Mask

  Fred Block

  Research professor of sociology at U.C. Davis.
  Where Is the Risk in the COVID Economy?

  Janet Roitman and Andrew Moon
  Wages Against Essential Work

  Alissa G. Karl

  Associate professor of English at SUNY Brockport
  Understanding the Fear of Vaccines

  Tarun Jose Kattumana

  PhD student of philosophy at KU Leuven in Belgium