EP #177 - 11.30.2020 - Denial, Democracy and Witnessing in the Age of COVID-19

Today we have a discussion of DENIAL, DEMOCRACY, AND WITNESSING IN THE AGE OF COVID-19 AND CLIMATE CHANGE with political scientist Nancy Rosenblum.

Nancy Rosenblum is the Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emerita. Her field of research is historical and contemporary political thought. Her book Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America was published by Princeton University Press in 2016. On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship received the Walter Channing Cabot Fellow Award from Harvard in 2010 for scholarly eminence. She is the author, among other books, of Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America (1998), which was awarded the APSA David Easton Prize in 2000. She is editor of Thoreau: Political Writings, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Prof. Rosenblum is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. She is Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Political Science.