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

  Co-executive Editor, Public Seminar and 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