Issues for the week of March 18, 2021 - Public Seminar

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Week of March 18

Racial Reckonings
I Am a Man
Mark Allan Williams
Essayist and Editor
How Donald Trump Facilitated the Current Racist Attacks on Asian Americans
Nadia Y. Kim
Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University; author of Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA
Sexual Reckonings
The Matzneff Affair: Should Love Have No Age Limit?
Mitchell Abidor
Brooklyn-based writer and translator
Hilaria Baldwin’s Newest Baby Should Make Us All Happy
Amanda Katz
Writer and editor
History Reconsidered
We Lionize Abraham Lincoln – But John Wilkes Booth Still Embodies a Part of America’s Soul
Bennett Parten
Bennett Parten is a PhD candidate at Yale University
The Business of America
Location, Location, Location!
Pat Garofalo
Author and director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project
Our Columnists
The Department of the Interior’s New Face
Heather Cox Richardson
Professor of History, Boston College
Andrew Cuomo’s Female Enablers
Claire Potter
Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research