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