Issues for the week of May 13, 2021 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of May 13

Animal Liberation
Why We Should Ban Pets
Hannah Arsenault-Gallant
Graduate Student at Queen’s University
Geopolitics
IOU planet
Sarah Waring
Editor at Eurozine.
Classics Revisited
Books
The Floating Pool Lady
Ann L. Buttenwieser
Urban planner and historian
Art & Covid
What Can’t be Contained
Alexandra Délano Alonso and Macushla Robinson
Podcasts
Peloton and the History of Product Recalls
Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young
Executives at Gig Companies Say the Darndest Things
Luke Mergner and Pete Sinnott
Our Columnists
Cheney’s Last Stand
Heather Cox Richardson
Professor of History, Boston College
That We Love Our Country More
Claire Potter
Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
Liz Cheney Is Right Where She Needs to Be
John Stoehr
Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board