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

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Curated Essays for the

Week of September 23

Previous Weeks

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

Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University

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