Week of June 2

• Onward in the Arts
  The Arts and the “Fierce Urgency of Now”

  Katha Pollitt

  Poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation
  Literary Imperialism and Scenes of High Melodrama

  Torsa Ghosal

  Assistant professor of English, California State University
• Politics
  We Are a Reckoning

  Deva Woodly

  Associate Professor of Politics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at The New School for Social Research
  The Riot on New Zealand’s Front Lawn

  Lydia Nobbs

  Politics PhD student at The New School for Social Research
  Putin’s New Iron Curtain

  Lucas Fain

  Philosopher and visiting scholar in the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University
  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
  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
• Race and Academia
  “‘Look, a Negro’ … in the Academy”

  Davarian L. Baldwin and Bridgette Baldwin