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