Issues for the week of August 28, 2020 - Public Seminar

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When Is It Time to Leave?

January 30, 2025Mary Karmelek

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Curzio Malaparte’s War

January 30, 2025Adam Tooze

Crowd of Israeli men gather for a demonstration

Israel’s American History

January 29, 2025Oz Frankel, Claire Potter

January 23, 2025Catherine Texier

Diana holding Cupid's bow away from him

The Powerful Convergence of Past, Present, and Future in Catherine Texier’s Latest Novel

January 23, 2025Hannah McIntyre, Catherine Texier

K-Pop group Ateez on stage

The Blessings of K-Pop

January 23, 2025Abha Deshmukh

Parent writes at desk while using breast pump

Family Values or Family Exclusion?

January 22, 2025Elide Vincenti

Black and white image photograph of woman sitting next to bed on which a man's boots are visible

Downward Mobility as a Relative Loss in Economic Security

December 19, 2024Teresa Ghilarducci, Ludovica Tursini

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Social Capitalism: An Alternative to Neoliberalism

December 18, 2024Mark Setterfield

Dark blue book cover with a green plant and yellow and orange flowers. The text reads The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo.

The Witches of El Paso

December 11, 2024Luis Jaramillo

Generations of Women in The Witches of El Paso

December 11, 2024Marisol Aveline Delarosa, Luis Jaramillo

Clothing waste piles up on a beach

The Fashion for Baiting, Brainwashing, and Bullying

December 10, 2024Hannah McIntyre

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Curated Essays for the

Week of August 28

Race
A New Era in America’s Racial Politics
Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King
Why We Shouldn’t Try to Erase America’s Racist Past
Karyn Lacy
Sociologist at the University of Michigan
Good History Makes the Familiar Strange to Us
Daniel Osborn
Program director at Primary Source
Plague
What America Got Wrong About COVID-19–and What We Can Learn from France and Italy
Isabel Perera and Sidney Tarrow
The Pandemic Has Revealed the Driving Values of American Higher Education
Eileen Hunt Botting and Edwin Michael
How to Reopen the American Economy Now
Teresa Ghilarducci
Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Chair of Economics, New School for Social Research
Justice
Covering SCOTUS in the Age of Trump
Dahlia Lithwick and Claire Potter
Classics Reconsidered
What Did Aristotle Think About Slavery?
Steven B. Smith
Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and professor of philosophy
Conceptual Puzzlement
Is Capitalism in Crisis, Dying, Dead — or Very Much Alive, for Better or Worse?
Ben Kodres-O'Brien
Communications PhD student at the Columbia Journalism School