Goodbye, Turkey
As the transition to a Biden administration finally begins, Public Seminar wishes you and yours a happy, restful and socially distanced holiday
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This week the editors at Public Seminar offer a special edition: as some of you may know, we are staffed by talented New School students, each of whom works hard to produce our daily posts and weekly issues. This week, in addition to everything else they do — copy edit, set up essays, correspond with authors, choose art, and write headlines, some of our editors wrote for us. They then chose favorite articles to re-run this week. The issue closes, as usual, with our columnists’ take on the week’s news.
The senior editors want to thank our staff for their constructive work ethic, for the good cheer that they bring to the Public Seminar project, for their desire to learn, and most of all for their intelligence. We want to thank our sponsors at The New School, as well as our writers, contributing editors, and the publishers who graciously permit us to reprint book excerpts and essays that have originated elsewhere. And most of all, we want to thank you, our readers for your support. Many of you chose to donate to Public Seminar last year, and we hope that you will once again consider us as you plan your end-of-year giving. For you, and for new benefactors, please access our donation page with the button below. Consider a one-time gift of any size, or a recurring, monthly donation to support the Public Seminar project at The New School.
The Thanksgiving Issue
Liuchang "Helen" Tan, “A Chinese Student’s Perspective on America’s Presidential Election: Young Americans and Chinese have more in common than meets the eye.” (November 24, 2020)
Ryan Keeney, “New Voters and Bells—What Toppled Trump: In one of the most pivotal elections in our history, first-time and young voters found their voices.” (November 24, 2020)
Linus Glenhaber, “How to be Thankful in 2020: Making the best of video conferencing, social distancing, and Star Trek.” (November 24, 2020)
Katherine Huggins, “Dancing is my Amazing Grace: How art taken up as a child has shaped the rhythm of my life.” (November 25, 2020)
Déja Vu All Over Again
Malinda Maynor Lowery, “Are American Indians Part of a United States National History? This land didn’t just used to belong to indigenous nations — it still does.” (May 7, 2019)
William Collins Donahue, “My Trump-Voting Brother and Me: The silences and anger that seeped into our families in 2016 are not going to end after the election.” (October 29,2020)
Kristopher Burrell, “When It Comes to Racial Justice, Why Is It Wrong to Demand the “Impossible”? Because when white comfort matters most, Black lives are not a priority.” (November 3, 2020)
Natasha Lennard and James Miller, “On Fascism, Non-fascism, and Antifa: Natasha Lennard in conversation with James Miller.” (October 15, 2020)
Evangeline Riddiford Graham, “Poetry to Vote By: Reading Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic on the eve of the election.” (November 3, 2020)
Robert Korstad and James Leloudis, “Why We Need to Defeat White Supremacy at the Ballot Box: North Carolina shows what can happen when anti-Black racism goes mainstream.” (October 22, 2020)
Claire Potter, “JFK’s Queer White House: What we can learn about a straight President by looking at the gay men in his orbit.” (December 13, 2018)
Our Columnists
John Stoehr, “How the Constitution Stopped Trump’s Attempted Coup d’État: Federalism saved us.” (November 24, 2020)
Heather Cox Richardson, “Can the Republican Party Move Forward After the Inauguration? As Biden creates a cabinet that looks like America, Trump is determined to keep hold of a party that has courted White Supremacists for decades.” (November 25, 2020)