The Whole World is Watching

The American Left at a crossroads, redux

The following essay was written this morning by Public Seminar’s co-executive editor James Miller. You can read it here, or online.

I am a spectator to the fire this time. A resident of Manhattan, locked down during our pandemic, sheltering in place as an older person with a pre-existing condition, I now watch the world, not from my perch near Union Squa…