Issues for the week of February 2, 2023 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of February 2

Previous Weeks

American Democracy in Crisis

Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy and Its Culture

Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Founding Editor of Public Seminar, Senior Fellow at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, and chair of the Democracy Seminar

Frederick Douglass on Multiracial Democracy

Juliet Hooker

Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science, Brown
University

Inventing and Implementing a World We Wish to Share

Deva Woodly

Associate Professor of Politics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at The New School for Social Research

Hannah Arendt: Insurrection and Constitutionalism

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

American Democracy in Crisis: Q & A on Tocqueville, Douglass, Dewey, and Arendt

Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Juliet Hooker, William Milberg, James Miller and Deva Woodly