Weekly Issues

2020

Week of November 25

  • The Thanksgiving Issue
  • Déjà Vu All Over Again
  • Our Columnists

Week of November 19

  • Politics
  • Annals of the Pandemic
  • Classics Reconsidered
  • Our Columnists
Politics, classics reconsidered, and annals of the pandemic.

Week of November 12

  • Featured Essay
  • Annals of Democracy
  • Economics
  • Our Columnists
An election post-mortem, disability, democracy in Poland, and Google.

Week of November 5

  • Race Matters
  • The Vote
  • Annals of Democracy
  • Books
  • Our Columnists
As the nation, and the world, holds its breath dedicated civil servants and volunteers ensure a fair election.

Week of October 29

  • Annals of the Pandemic
  • Politics
  • Classics Reconsidered
  • Books
  • Our Columnists
Annals of the Pandemic, Politics, and -- Chimpanzees?

Week of October 22

  • Featured Essay
  • Politics
  • Higher Education
  • Our Columnists
  • Democracy
Politics, higher education, and a featured essay about tenured radicals.

Week of October 15

  • Special Issue: Fascism for Our Time
  • Politics
  • Our Columnists
Special issue on fascism, Amy Coney Barrett's faith, and election 2020.

Week of October 9

  • Politics
  • The American Constitution in Crisis: 1861 and 2020
  • Book Review
  • Annals of the Pandemic
  • Our Columnists
Superspreaders, election news, and -- Abraham Lincoln?

Week of October 2

  • Exclusive Book Excerpt
  • Politics
  • Surveillance
  • Our Columnists
  • Music
As the United States counts down to the election, Public Seminar imagines acts of recovery.

Week of September 25

  • The American Condition
  • Featured Essay
  • Politics
  • Memoir
  • Classics Reconsidered
Defiance, resistance, and dissent.

Week of September 18

  • Politics
  • Plague
  • Democracy
  • Post Office

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