Issues for the week of September 18, 2020 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of September 18

Previous Weeks

Politics

Why Trump Could Win Again

Timothy Kuhner and Benjamin Page

“Alternative Facts” Produce Real Disasters

Heather Cox Richardson

Professor of History, Boston College

Is the TikTok Deal Another Level of Trumpian Corruption?

David Lieberman
Plague

COVID-19 Mirror on the Wall—Who’s the Bravest College of Them All?

Edwin Michael and Eileen Hunt Botting
Democracy

Donald Trump: Democracy’s Mirror image?

Philip Manow

Professor of Political Science at the University of Bremen

What Americans Can Learn from the Lebanese

Roxana Toma

Associate Professor, Social and Public Policy, School for Graduate Studies, State University of New York, Empire State College
Post Office

The United States Post Office is in Trouble

Ryan Yursha

MFA (Creative and Professional Writing) Student at Western Connecticut State University