In Limbo
As President Trump and his supporters flail dangerously, and the coronavirus count rises, Public Seminar offers snapshots of this unstable time from around the globe
For the first time since becoming Vice-President elect, Kamala Harris came to the floor of the United States Senate this week to cast a vote: she accepted congratulations from Republican colleagues, some of whom have yet to publicly acknowledge that President Trump lost the election. Photo credit: Kim Wilson/Shutterstock.
Politics
Dani Rodrick, “The Democrats’ Four-Year Reprieve: How did Donald Trump manage to win an even larger number of votes than in 2016, despite lies, corruption, and a bungled pandemic response?” (November 19, 2020)
Jeff Snyder, “Can I Get a Witness? Until recently, Black testimony about racism had to be validated by whites. That’s changing.” (November 19, 2020)
Hannah Leffingwell, “France’s Tale of Two Secularisms: After terrorist attacks rattle France, where will the Republic go from here?” (November 18, 2020)
Sławomir Sierakowski, “Mini-Trumps in the Wilderness: Trump’s loss of the presidency in 2020 may spell disaster for his fellow populists in Eastern Europe.” (November 18, 2020)
Ingo Petz, “The Mood Has Changed: From confrontation to subversion, the evolution of protest culture in Belarus.” (November 19, 2020)
Annals of the Pandemic
Vedika Inamdar and Pooja George, “The Indian Media is Blaming Muslims for the Coronavirus Pandemic: Disease has made a bad situation for India’s ethnic minorities worse.” (November 16, 2020)
Axel Honneth, “Will the Pandemic Teach Us Democracy? An interview with Axel Honneth.” (November 19, 2020)
Classics Reconsidered
Sandrine Berges, “How Should We Commemorate Mary Wollstonecraft? Why the current controversy is curiously appropriate.” (November 19, 2020)
Our Columnists
John Stoehr, “Is the GOP For or Against America? Ned Staebler, of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, is mad as hell.” (November 19, 2020)
Heather Cox Richardson, “Political Tensions Rise as COVID-19 Deaths Surpass a Quarter-Million: As support for Trump begins to crumble among Republicans, the White House doubles down on efforts to cripple the incoming Biden administration.” (November 19, 2020)