Issues for the week of November 12, 2020 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of November 12

Featured Essay
Who Is Disfigured by a Cleft Lip?
Ella Hillström
MA in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research
Annals of Democracy
Why Polls Can’t Satisfy Us
Claire Potter
Contributing Editor, Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History, The New School for Social Research
Europe Reacts to the 2020 US Presidential Election
Valerio Alfonso Bruno and Parsi Vittorio Emanuele
A Halloween Uprising and Poland’s General Strike Over Abortion
Elzbieta Matynia
Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research, Director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies
Will Women Defeat Poland’s Illiberal Regime?
Sławomir Sierakowski
Sławomir Sierakowski, founder of the Krytyka Polityczna movement, is Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw
Economics
Why Google Is Facing Serious Accusations of Monopoly Practices
Prabir Purkayastha
Founding editor of Newsclick.in
Our Columnists
Black Lives Matter Gave Joe Biden His Victory
John Stoehr
Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board
After the Election, New Leadership and Old Cronyism
Heather Cox Richardson
Professor of History, Boston College