Week of March 31

• Social Movements & Political Parties
  What Are We Defending When We Defend Democracy?

  James Miller

  Professor Emeritus of Politics and Liberal Studies and founding Faculty Director of the MA in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism at The New School
  Social Movements and Political Parties in the Making and Unmaking of Modern American Democracy

  Sidney Tarrow

  Emeritus Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Adjunct Professor, Cornell Law School
  The Growing Power of American Social Movements

  William Galston

  Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
  Why Movements Matter in Black Politics

  Megan Ming Francis

  G. Alan and Barbara Delsman Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington
  How Movements on the Right and Left Differ—and Why That Difference Matters

  Michael Tomasky

  Editor of The New Republic and of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
  Why We Should Rethink the Distinction Between “Institutional” and “Contentious” Politics

  Elisabeth Clemens

  Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
  Movements and Parties or Movement Parties?

  Sidney Tarrow

  Emeritus Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Adjunct Professor, Cornell Law School