What Do TikTok, Trump, and Notre Dame Have in Common?
They're all in Public Seminar this week, that's what
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This week’s issue:
Politics
Timothy Kuhner and Benjamin Page, “Why Trump Could Win Again: Democrats must respond to rising inequality and the working class.” (September 17, 2020)
Heather Cox Richardson, “Alternative Facts” Produce Real Disasters: As Trump officials hide the truth to support the boss’s re-election campaign, Americans become more ill-informed — and vulnerable — than ever.” (September 13, 2020)
David Lieberman, “Is the TikTok Deal Another Level of Trumpian Corruption?Threatening China’s ByteDance may have forced a deal that benefits a campaign donor.” (September 15, 2020)
Plague
Edwin Michael and Eileen Hunt Botting, “COVID-19 Mirror on the Wall—Who’s the Bravest College of Them All? Moving online and volunteering for vaccine trials this Fall requires a more prudent courage than reopening college campuses for classes and football.” (September 16, 2020)
Democracy
Philip Manow, “Donald Trump: Democracy’s Mirror image? Modern liberal democracies can always cancel themselves.” (September 15, 2020)
Roxane Toma, “What Americans Can Learn from the Lebanese: Inspiration amid the ruins of Beirut.” (September 14, 2020)
Post Office
Ryan Yursha, “The United States Post Office is in Trouble: The strange fate of the United States Postal Service.” (September 16, 2020)
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