Week of March 11

• The Politics of Shame
  A Genealogy of White Privilege

  James Miller

  Professor of Politics and Liberal Studies and Faculty Director of the MA in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism, New School for Social Research
  How “White Privilege” Obscures Black Vulnerability

  Mukasa Mubirumusoke

  Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Claremont McKenna College
  The Neoracists

  John McWhorter

  Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
  How Shame Plays a Productive Role in Racial Justice

  Benjamin P. Davis

  Postdoctoral Fellow in the African American Studies Department at Saint Louis University
  Why “Naming and Shaming” Is a Tactic That Often Backfires In International Relations

  Rochelle Terman

  Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago
  Democrats Have a Religion Problem

  Musa al-Gharbi

  Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in Sociology at Columbia University
• The Swamp
  A Better Way to Do Corporate Giveaways

  Pat Garofalo

  Author and director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project
• Women's History Month
  What’s the Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote?

  Tressie McMillan Cottom

  Associate Professor in the iSchool at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Our Columnists
  Democracy Doesn’t Happen By Accident

  Heather Cox Richardson

  Professor of History, Boston College
  #OprahMeghanHarry

  Claire Potter

  Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
  The United States Is Picking Up Where The Great Society Left Off

  John Stoehr 

  Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board