Issues for the week of September 23, 2019 - Public Seminar

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Week of September 23

Elections
2nd Week Prev. Rank: 3
Warren is Not Too Late
Jeffrey C. Isaac
Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington
Elizabeth Warren Stays Off the Pollercoaster and with the People
Claire Potter
Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
Elizabeth Warren at Washington Square Park
Jo Freeman
Feminist scholar and political scientist
Why Warren’s Speech Was Terrific
Jeffrey C. Isaac
Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington
Cities
First Week New Issue
New York City’s Sunnyside Yards, and Our Urban Future
Joseph Heathcott
This Atom Bomb in Me
Lindsey A. Freeman
Assistant Professor in the Sociology & Anthropology Department at Simon Fraser University.
‘Our Readers Feel We Are on Their Side’
Clara Hemphill
Director of Education Policy, Center for New York City Affairs, The New School
Populism
First Week New Issue
Varieties of Gendered Populism
Elżbieta Korolczuk
A sociologist, working at Södertörn University in Stockholm and American Studies Center, Warsaw University
The Story of Indian Democracy Written in Blood and Betrayal
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
European Parliament Elections Viewed from Central and Eastern Europe
Veronica Anghel
Sex and Gender
The Performance of Transgender Inclusion
Jen Manion
Associate Professor of History, Amherst College
We Still Need Pronoun Go-Rounds
Dean Spade
Associate Professor, Seattle University School of Law
Mobilizing to Fight Trump’s Proposed Transgender Ban
Jennifer Finney Boylan