Breaking and Rebuilding
As the United States counts down to the election, Public Seminar imagines acts of recovery
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Exclusive Book Excerpt
Hugh Raffles, “Muscovite.” (October 1, 2020)
Politics
Martin Shuster, “QAnon as a Byproduct of a Broken America: Alienation, anxiety, and religion.” (Septembere 28, 2020)
Pat Garofolo, “Big Tech May Be Closer to Home Than You Know: How digital behemoths create economically vulnerable communities — and then prey on them.” (October 1, 2020)
Kim Phillips-Fein, “As New York City Rebuilds, Business Can Be Part of the Solution: Higher taxes are necessary, but who will have the political courage to make it happen?” (October 1, 2020)
Claire Potter, “I Am Ignoring Amy Coney Barrett: And you should too — because she will be confirmed, Trump is trolling us with this nomination, and we have an election to win.” (September 28, 2020)
Surveillance
Vince Carducci, “Detroit’s Project Green Light and the “New Jim Code”: Why video surveillance and digital technology intensify racism.” (October 1, 2020)
Our Columnists
John Stoehr, “Joe Biden Faces Down the Fascist Donald Trump: Biden’s `Will you shut up, man’ is the signature takeaway line from the debate.” (September 30, 2020)
Heather Cox Richardson, “Malarkey! As Donald Trump spins increasingly wild fantasies, the campaign tries to contain him and the Proud Boys stand by.” (October 1, 2020)
Music
Ginger Dellenbaugh, “Oh Say, Can You Sing? Why America has the national anthem it deserves.” (September 29, 2020)
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