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Week of April 8

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Work

Time for a Rethink on the Worth of Work

Paulo L. dos Santos

Associate Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research
Literature

Essential Services

José Ángel Navejas

Author of Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant and Invierno: Playlist desde Chicago

This Body Is a Gift: Natalie Diaz

Natalie Diaz and Evangeline Riddiford Graham
Democracy

#Orbanistan

Kriszta Kovács

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, WZB Berlin Center for Global Constitutionalism

Populists Love the Pandemic

Sławomir Sierakowski

Sławomir Sierakowski, founder of the Krytyka Polityczna movement, is Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw

In Praise of Bureaucracy

Jeffrey Kopstein
History

COVID-19: When History Has No Lessons

Gaëtan Thomas and Guillaume Lachenal

Automation with a Socialist Face

Lukáš Likavčan and Benjamin Peters

Enduring the Chernobyl Disaster

Damian Roos and Kate Brown