Issues for the week of October 29, 2020 - Public Seminar

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Week of October 29

Annals of the Pandemic
Five Lessons for Democracy From the Covid-19 Pandemic
Jean-Paul Gagnon, Rikki J. Dean, Afsoun Afsahi, Emily Beausoleil and Selen A. Ercan
Fall Fashion
Otto von Busch
Associate professor of Integrated Design, School of Design Strategies
Politics
The Silver Lining of the 2020 Census
Kenneth Prewitt
Carnegie Professor, Columbia University, and ex-Director of the Census Bureau
The Showdown Between Democracy and Autocracy
Claudia Koonz
Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University
My Trump-Voting Brother and Me
William Collins Donahue
The Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Professor of the Humanities; Director, Initiative for Global Europe, Keough School of Global Affairs
Classics Reconsidered
What Julius Caesar and His Debts Can Teach Us About Donald Trump
Kenneth Pringle
Financial journalist, internet-news pioneer, writer and historian
Books
Chimpanzee Culture Wars
Nicolas Langlitz
Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research
Psychoanalysis and Post-Truth
Jordan Osserman, Aimée Lê and Foivos Dousos
Our Columnists
The Thin Blue Line
Heather Cox Richardson
Professor of History, Boston College