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

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Curated Essays for the

Week of August 28

Previous Weeks

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