Issues for the week of February 18, 2021 - Public Seminar

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Week of February 18

Capitalist Studies
Nevada Gambles on a Tech Hub in the Desert
Pat Garofalo
Author and director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project
Student Loans: The Origins of a Racket
Devan Lindey
Devan Lindey is a third-year Ph.D. Candidate at Purdue University studying the History of Education as well as American Constitutional and Legal History
How Banks Are Squeezing Their Staff
Anna K. Wood and Terri Friedline
New School Histories
Reckoning with The New School’s Legacies
Julia Foulkes
Professor of history at The New School of Public Engagement
A Relevant Education
Howard Kirschenbaum
Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester
Books
Good and Evil
Ann Heberlein
Academic and bestselling author
Politics
The Future of a Delusion
John Ehrenreich
Author, clinical psychologist, and professor emeritus at SUNY Old Westbury
Our Columnists
The United States Is in Recovery
Heather Cox Richardson
Professor of History, Boston College
Stop calling the GOP ‘conservative’
John Stoehr
Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board