Issues for the week of December 24, 2020 - Public Seminar

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Week of December 24

Previous Weeks

The Best of 2020

Time Is Out of Joint

Sergio Infante

Assistant editor at Foreign Affairs

Amy Cooper: The Paradox of the Shameless White Liberal

Musa al-Gharbi

Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in Sociology at Columbia University

Behind Bars in the Age of Coronavirus

Phyllis Dietrichson

Inmate at New York Department of Corrections

Understanding the Fear of Vaccines

Tarun Jose Kattumana

PhD student of philosophy at KU Leuven in Belgium

QAnon Will Outlast Trumpism

Emily Sandercock

Freelance writer

Five Lessons for Democracy From the Covid-19 Pandemic

Jean-Paul Gagnon, Rikki J. Dean, Afsoun Afsahi, Emily Beausoleil and Selen A. Ercan

Why We Shouldn’t Try to Erase America’s Racist Past

Karyn Lacy

Sociologist at the University of Michigan

How to Suppress the Vote

Jo Freeman

Feminist scholar and political scientist

The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longer View

John Ehrenreich

Author, clinical psychologist, and professor emeritus at SUNY Old Westbury

Why the U.S. Should Convene a 2021 Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation

Andrew Wainer

Director, Policy Research with Save the Children