Issues for the week of June 17, 2021 - Public Seminar

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Week of June 17

Featured Interview
This Body Is a Gift: Natalie Diaz
Natalie Diaz and Evangeline Riddiford Graham
Politics
How ‘The Squad’ Has Caved to Corporate Power
Leonard C. Goodman
Criminal defense attorney and co-owner of the newly independent Reader
Democrats and Anti-Trump Conservatives Must Join Forces to Defend Democracy
Adam Littlestone-Luria
Furman Academic Scholar at New York University School of Law
Books
Slavery Made Economic Thinking Possible
Jennifer L. Morgan
Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis & History; Chair of the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, NYU
Confederate Monuments Are Not History
Claire Potter and Karen L. Cox
Our Columnists
A Shocking Win in Texas
Pat Garofalo
Author and director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project
In Defense of Democracy
Heather Cox Richardson
Professor of History, Boston College
How the Press Corps Severs Public Debate from the Constraints of History, Creating Space for Real Harm
John Stoehr
Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board