Breaking Points
As the United States accelerates towards an election, Public Seminar examines America's traditions of defiance, resistance and dissent.
The American Condition
Deanne Stillman, “Is America Going Down Like Custer? When defiance is the coin of the realm.” (September 24, 2020)
Featured Essay
Benjamin Davis, “Why Does White Fragility Never Break? The Framing of Racism in Higher Education.” (September 22, 2020)
Politics
Arlene Stein, “Trump’s Sadistic Spectacle of Winners and Losers: When Americans learned to idolize the rich and famous, they also came to secretly despise themselves.” (September 23, 2020)
John Stoehr “Anti-maskers Are Not Rugged Individualists: They are collectivists living in fear of being punished by their group.” (September 17, 2020)
Heather Cox Richardson, “Feminist Legal Pioneer Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87: Progressives mourn a SCOTUS legend, famous for potent dissents, who saw gender equity as a path to civil rights for all.” (September 19, 2020)
Memoir
James Goodman, “Remembering and Resisting the Age of Reagan: An activist historian advises his students that the choices they make now will shape their future.” (September 24, 2020)
Classics Reconsidered
Steven Stoll, “Charlie Chaplin and Karl Marx in Conversation: On Working and Being in Modern Times.” (Septembr 21, 2020)