Stamps in the Time of Covid, David Luberoff reflects.

What did you do during this year of Covid? David Luberoff decided to crack open the binders holding his late father's stamp collection and see what was inside. What started a year ago as a whim for this Harvard policy wonk has developed into a nightly exploration of his own mind and the world around him, courtesy of his “Stamp of the Day” posts he shares on Facebook and LinkedIn.

A former director at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a one-time journalist, David has been writing and researching public policy and urban politics for decades. Stamps reopened a curiosity about so much, from the stamp celebrating the opening of the 1939 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, NY, a location with huge resonance for him personally, to a 1951 stamp honoring the last surviving Confederate War Veterans, a fact that caused him to ponder the stamp’s enormous implications for our current calls for racial reckoning and healing.

In this conversation, David shares his very unique insights into this gift his father left behind, a gift which has helped David navigate our year of Covid.