An introductory roundtable discussion probing responses to the social and ethical challenges posed by this pandemic. We will open with a discussion on responses to what has been called “axial” experiences of radical cultural and spiritual crisis and thus discontinuity, disjunctions, and rupture.

Featuring:

Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, host of the Podcast ‘Deep Background of Difference,’ and Bloomberg Opinion Columnist

Roberta Jacobson, former White House Coordinator for the Southern Border, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere, and former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico

Jerry Brown, Executive Chair, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Chair, California-China Climate Institute, former Governor of California.

Discussants:

Professor Noah Feldman

Ambassador Roberta Jacobson

Governor Jerry Brown