Week of September 25

• The American Condition
  Is America Going Down Like Custer?

  Deanne Stillman

  Core faculty member, UC Riverside-Palm Desert Low Residency MFA Creative Writing Program.
• Featured Essay
  Why Does White Fragility Never Break?

  Benjamin P. Davis

  Postdoctoral Fellow in the African American Studies Department at Saint Louis University
• Politics
  Trump’s Sadistic Spectacle of Winners and Losers

  Arlene Stein

  Distinguished Professor of sociology, Rutgers University and Director of the Institute for Research on Women
  Anti-maskers Are Not Rugged Individualists

  John Stoehr 

  Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board
  Feminist Legal Pioneer Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87

  Heather Cox Richardson

  Professor of History, Boston College
• Memoir
  Remembering and Resisting the Age of Reagan

  James Goodman

  Professor of History, Rutgers University
• Classics Reconsidered
  Charlie Chaplin and Karl Marx in Conversation

  Steven Stoll

  Professor of history at Fordham University and author of Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia