Roundup

This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/5/2020
  

  Scapegoating New York Means Ignoring Its Desperate Need

  by Kim Phillips-Fein

  Blaming the city for coronavirus is a way of letting the federal government off the hook.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/6/2020
  

  The Pandemic Is Not an Excuse to Exploit Writers

  by Douglas Preston

  Internet Archive’s “National Emergency Library” is meant to benefit consumers during the coronavirus crisis. Authors everywhere are losing.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/5/2020
  

  Why We Keep Getting the Lessons of the Spanish Flu Wrong

  by Kevin Peraino

  History matters in a crisis like this, but not the way most people use it.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/6/2020
  

  States Can't Fight Coronavirus on Their Own—And the Founding Fathers Knew It

  by Lindsay M. Chervinsky

  It’s a problem the nation’s founders could have foreseen. After all, they knew from experience that some problems can’t be dealt with on a state-by-state basis.

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• SOURCE: Lapham's Quarterly
  4/6/2020
  

  A Revolution of Values

  by Peniel E. Joseph

  Racial apartheid’s grip on American democracy, argued King, corrupted the nation in war and peace.

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  4/6/2020
  

  COVID-19: When History Has No Lessons

  by Gaëtan Thomas and Guillaume Lachenal

  Guillaume Lachenal and Gaëtan Thomas argue that an over-reliance on the allure of ‘pandemic precedents’ needs to be replaced with an enhanced understanding of the capacity of present crises to resist historical interpretation.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/5/2020
  

  Wall Street Wins – Again: Bailouts in the Time of Coronavirus

  by Nomi Prins

  If ground-up solutions to help ordinary Americans and small businesses aren’t adopted, one thing is predictable: once this crisis has been “managed,” we’ll be set up for a larger one in an even more disparate world.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/5/2020
  

  President Trump Must Resist his Base’s Push to Prioritize Faith over Science

  by Erica Ramirez

  Pentecostals have long challenged science and medicine—something that could prove deadly during the covid-19 pandemic.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  4/4/2020
  

  Coronavirus Pushes Higher Education to the Brink

  by Stephen Mihm

  Long-simmering troubles at America’s colleges and universities are about to boil over, consuming debt-ridden schools and redefining the campus experience.

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  4/2/2020
  

  Trump Has Broken the Republican Party—and Conservatism—for Good

  by William Kristol

  There is no going back.

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• SOURCE: Blue Book Diaries
  4/2/2020
  

  The Liberal Arts, the People, and the Pandemic

  by Jonathan W. Wilson

  Other than professional experts, the Americans who understand the crisis best—regardless of political ideology—are those who have a well-rounded imagination.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/2/2020
  

  The Drama and Appeal of ‘Tiger King’ Is a Century in the Making

  by Andrew Robichaud

  Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin have hooked quarantined Americans because of what the series says about themselves.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  4/1/2020
  

  America Is Ailing—and Leading the World

  by Adam Tooze

  The coronavirus pandemic has been a humiliation for the United States—and confirmation of its unmatched international power.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/3/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Test Is Too Hard for Trump

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The president joins Herbert Hoover and James Buchanan as a leader who failed when it mattered most.

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• 4/3/2020
  

  Roundup Top Ten for April 3, 2020

  The week's top ten op-eds by historians from around the web.

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• SOURCE: Duluth News Tribune
  4/1/2020
  

  Anti-Intellectualism is Killing Us

  by Scott Laderman

  For decades the Republican Party has railed against expertise, painting it as a conspiratorial assault on so-called “conservative” values and the millions of Americans who embrace them.

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• SOURCE: TPM
  4/1/2020
  

  For More Than A Century, Americans Fine-Tuned The Rules Of Democracy. Why Have We Stopped?

  by Gregory P. Downs

  The United States has survived not by keeping the same system but by transforming its rules at crucial moments.

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• SOURCE: Scholarly Kitchen
  4/2/2020
  

  The Internet Archive Chooses Readers

  by Karin Wulf

  To elevate the needs of the reader above all others is to dismiss the labor of archivists, authors, compositors, designers, editors, librarians, marketers, metadata creators, and all the other myriad people involved in bringing knowledge into being and into the marketplace.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2020
  

  During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Immigrant Farmworkers are Heroes

  by Eladio Bobadilla

  Tracing Cesar Chavez's transforming views on immigration may shed light on how we can support farmworkers’ rights today.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2020
  

  If We Want to Stop Covid-19, We Can’t Forget the Incarcerated

  by Jessica L. Adler

  Imprisoned people are especially at risk, just as they were during the HIV/AIDS crisis.