Issues for the week of August 26, 2021 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of August 26

Featured Essay
A Patch of Moonlight
Ruth Padel
Award-winning British poet
History
Serendipity in the Archives
Marcus Rediker
Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh
The World
How the War on Global Poverty Failed
Joanne Meyerowitz
Remembering—and Forgetting—the Cuban Revolution
Michael J. Bustamante
Associate Professor of History and Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies University of Miami.
In Memoriam
Remembering Michael E. Gellert
Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Founding Editor of Public Seminar, Senior Fellow at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, and chair of the Democracy Seminar
Our Columnists
Cuomo and the Buffalo Bills’ Billion
Pat Garofalo
Author and director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project
The Un-Canceling of Biographer Blake Bailey
Claire Potter
Contributing Editor, Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History, The New School for Social Research
Is Bad Faith Sabotaging the Fight Against Covid?
John Stoehr
Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board