Solstice
In the darkest moment of the year, we look to the light in 2021
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This is our final full issue for 2020, but stay tuned for next week’s “Best of 2020” issue, and two syllabus issues in January. We will be back in 2021, ready to greet President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris with all the advice they might ever want.
We would also like to end our fall season with a thank you for the folks who keep us going week to week, some of whom we never met even once in person: editors André Broussard, Liuchiang Tan, Ryan Keeney, Katherine Huggins, Urvashi Ajmera, and Linus Glenhaber; Democracy Seminar editors Udeepta Chakravarty and Elisabeta Pop; Seth Cohen and Aleanna Sonnyal, who run the business end of things; and Xarissa Holdaway, Juan Sebastien Vargas Saad, and Sarah Peavey in marketing.
And to you our readers — without you, we are nothing. We will see you in 2021.
The Season of Giving
Annie Bares, “Giving Back: The Scandal of `Employee-Giving’ Campaigns at America’s Universities.” (December, 2020)
Kelsey Baker, “Is Trump Right Not to Surrender? How the Commander in Chief’s refusal to face defeat squares with the U.S. military’s Code of Conduct.” (December, 16, 2020)
The Internet
Handler and Goldblatt, “What is Expertise Worth? Wikipedia, credentials, and the democratization of knowledge.” (December 17, 2020)
The Supernatural
Russ Castronovo, “Creatures of Habit: From Our First Zombie President to Ling Ma’s Severance.” (December 17, 2020)
Happy Holidays
Yvonne Vissing, “The Adultification of Santa Claus” He’s not just for children anymore — and never has been.” (December 17, 2020)”
Classics Reconsidered
Emma Planinc, “Could a Form of “Liberal Fascism” Help Solve the World’s Problems? Rediscovering H. G. Wells.” (December 14, 2020)
Education
Jeff Bryant, “Worse Than Betsy DeVos? Outside Money Swamps 2020 School Board Elections: A national campaign to privatize public schools continues regardless of who is president.” (December 15, 2020)
Our Columnists
John Stoehr, “Yes, Biden Should Call Out Trump’s Lawlessness: We can’t ignore it. We must face it head-on.” (December 15, 2020)
Heather Cox Richardson, “The Trump Administration Wanted You and Your Kids to Get Sick: A flurry of newly publicized White House documents reveals pandemic negligence from within and foreign hacking from without.” (December 17, 2020)
This one’s hot:
Teng Biao, “Oppression, Resistance and High-Tech Totalitarianism.” (Public Seminar’s Democracy Seminar, (December 16, 2020)
Hold the date!
You can’t register yet, but on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, at 12:00, the Public Seminar Book Talk webinars resume. New School historian Amanda Brickell Bellows will be in conversation with Peter Kolchin (University of Delaware) and Roseanne Adderly (Tulane University) about her new book, American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination (University of North Carolina Press, 2020).