Issues for the week of January 28, 2021 - Public Seminar

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Week of January 28

Featured Essay
Dear Kobe Bryant: a Threnody
Anna Reagan
MFA candidate in Creative Writing at UC Riverside’s Palm Desert MFA program
Politics
Biden’s Made-for-TV Inauguration
Stephanie Engel
Stephanie Engel (MD) is a psychiatrist in private practice in Cambridge, MA. and is a consultant in global mental health.
Georgia On My Mind
Jo Freeman
Feminist scholar and political scientist
Is Joe Biden a Socialist?
Colleen Doody
Associate Professor of History at DePaul University
The Fishy Origins of Brexit
Daniel Davies
Medievalist, Incoming Assistant Professor of English at University of Houston
Constructing America’s History
Towards a More Balanced History of the United States
R. Grant Kleiser
PhD Candidate in History at Columbia University
Annals of New York City
What Conventional Histories of New York’s Struggles in the 1970s Leave Out
Linus Glenhaber
Editorial Fellow at Public Seminar
Our Columnists
Time for Liberals to Trust Chuck Schumer
John Stoehr
Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board
Welcome to the Biden Administration
Heather Cox Richardson
Professor of History, Boston College