Issues for the week of December 9, 2021 - Public Seminar

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Week of December 9

BIG IDEAS
Navigating the World of Grand Strategy with Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston
Gregory Coleman, Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston
The Blob and the Mob: On Grand Strategy and Social Change
Beverly Gage
Professor of history and director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University
FABRICATING THE PAST
What Use Is Fact-Checking Against Fact-Free Politics?
Edin Hajdarpasic
Associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago
WITCH HUNTS
Burning the Witch
Miranda Forsyth
Associate Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) in the College of Asia and Pacific at Australian National University
JOE BIDEN'S AMERICA
Could We Learn to Live Somewhere Between “Never Again” and “Thoughts and Prayers?”
Claire Potter
Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
Photo Essay: Abortion Protests at the Supreme Court
Jo Freeman
Feminist scholar and political scientist
Cents and Non-Cents about Inflation
Steve Max
Board member, Three Parks Independent Democrats.
Associate Director Emeritus, Midwest Academy