Issues for the week of March 25, 2021 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of March 25

Racial Reckonings
What America Teaches White Men About Asian American Women
Nadia Y. Kim
Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University; author of Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA
Deb Haaland Brings Experience and History to Biden’s Cabinet
Michael Leroy Oberg and Joel Helfrich
Ukraine Has An Anti-Semitism Problem
Neil Karpenko
Ukraine’s history and politics researcher residing in Toronto
The New Essentialism
Simon Garnett
Simon Garnett is senior editor at Eurozine
Politics Abroad
Beyond the Two-State Solution
Omri Boehm, Micha Brumlik, Shimon Stein and Moshe Zimmerman
Books
The Education Trap
Cristina Groeger
Assistant Professor of History, Lake Forest College
Our Columnists
As Biden Reverses GOP Policies, SCOTUS May Stand In the Way
Heather Cox Richardson
Professor of History, Boston College
State Secrets
Pat Garofalo
Author and director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project
Our Nation Is a Shooting Gallery
Claire Potter
Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
We Must Concede That By Tolerating Shooting Massacres, We Are Choosing Not to Be Free
John Stoehr
Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board