Waiting
As voters line up in queues that stretch for multiple city blocks, draws lessons from our current moment -- and looks to the future
Annals of the Pandemic
Jean-Paul Gagnon, Rikki J. Dean, Afsoun Afsahi, Emily Beausoleil, and Selen A. Ercan, “Five Lessons for Democracy From the Covid-19 Pandemic: An international evaluation of democracy in crises.” (October 29, 2020)
Otto von Busch, “Fall Fashion: Could the collapse of consumption point to a better future for the fashion industry?” (October 28, 2020)
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Politics
Kenneth Prewitt, “The Silver Lining of the 2020 Census: The White House, by cutting short a key step in the census process, has inadvertently helped publicize that this census, like all those that preceded it, has errors – and that the Bureau is adept at finding and fixing them.” (October 27, 2020)
Claudia Koonz, “The Showdown Between Democracy and Autocracy: Why the broad anti-Trump coalition must prepare for a post-election crisis.” (October 29, 2020)
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)
Classics Revisited
Kenneth Pringle, “What Julius Caesar and His Debts Can Teach Us About Donald Trump: The money Julius Caesar owed changed world history.” (October 29, 2020)
Books
Nicolas Lamglitz, “Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Cultural primatology in the Anthropocene.” (October 20, 2020)
Jordan Osserman, Aimée Lê and Foivos Dousos, “Psychoanalysis and Post-Truth: A discussion of the evolution of politics and truth in our contemporary world.” (October 29, 2020)
Our Columnists
Heather Cox Richardson, “The Thin Blue Line: The Trump campaign weaves evangelicals and the alt-right more tightly into the president’s increasingly fragile base.” (October 26, 2020)