Twelve Days to Go
You know what to do: vote, vote, vote
It’s hard to know how to occupy ourselves as we wait for November 3. Americans will get a chance to have their say about four years of Trumpismo, and the United States government will turn to the business of a peaceful transition of power (or not.) Here are some ideas that Public Seminar wants in the conversation.
And theire’s more: don’t miss a terrific forum about historical comparisons at the Democracy Seminar. Finally, it is the one year anniversary of our relaunch: before you go, take the opportunity to leave a comment at the end of this newletter and tell us how we are doing, and what you want to see in this space.
Featured Essay
Aurora Borealis, “The Tenured Radical: A brief character study.” (October 22, 2020)
Politics
David McLean, “Why We Need to Forgive Pandemic Debt: In a “Force Majeure Global Catastrophe,” we need to take extraordinary steps.” (October 22, 2020)
James Leloudis and Robert Korstad, “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)
Şener Aktürk and Peter Rutland, “Why Are There No Protestants on the Supreme Court? Protecting the rights of religious minorities may propel some legal scholars to the top.” (October 22, 2020)
Mariama Eversley and Yevgeny Shrago, “Donald Trump Politicized the Federal Bureaucracy: The Next President Needs to Reverse That: How to rebuild our broken government.” (October 21, 2020)
Lawrence B. Glickman, “Why Business Depends on Big Government: The economy was meant to be underwritten by tax dollars—but Americans don’t want to know that.” (October 20, 2020)
Sandeep Vaheesan, “Can We Trust Monopolies to Play Fair? Current debates on Big Tech and antitrust law lack a clear definition of `competition.’” (October 19, 2020)
Higher Education
Judith Friedlander, “Why The New School Will Survive: An imprudent venture in historical context.” (October 22, 2020)
Our Columnists
John Stoehr, “Biden is Changing What ‘Bipartisan’ Means: GOP demands used to be the beginning of Democratic thinking.” (October 22, 2020)