How Politics Failed During COVID with Stephen J. Macedo

Join us for Objectively Speaking with Stephen J. Macedo on Wednesday, October 7 @ 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET. When the next crisis comes, will we repeat the same mistakes—or can we learn to protect both public health and the values of a free society? Professor Stephen J. Macedo explores this question in his new book In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us, which offers the first comprehensive political assessment of our pandemic response and raises urgent questions about how governments abandoned pre-Covid preparedness plans, politicized science, and deepened inequality. As the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and Acting Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Macedo is the author of several books including Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage and focuses his research on social justice exerted by various forms of globalization, especially immigration, and the problems raised by social media companies and the dangers of government efforts to policy “misinformation.” Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.