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

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Week of June 17

Previous Weeks

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