Issues for the week of September 16, 2021 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of September 16

Race
Are White People Really in Decline?
Karen Gaffney
English Professor at Raritan Valley Community College
PHILOSOPHY
A New Perspective on Richard Rorty’s Philosophy
Laura Nelson
Art
The Radicalism of the Frick Madison
Altair Brandon-Salmon
Altair Brandon-Salmon is a PhD candidate in the History of Art at Stanford University
Literature
Something New Under the Sun
Alexandra Kleeman
Alexandra Kleeman, Assistant Professor at The New School
A Near-Future Novel for Our Gorgeous and Beleaguered Present
Alexandra Kleeman and Helen Schulman
Democracy
“You Cannot Force Me to Look and Not to See”
Alaiza Pashkevich
Cut the Pentagon!
Jo Freeman
Feminist scholar and political scientist
Our Columnists
For the Freedom to Vote
Heather Cox Richardson
Professor of History, Boston College
We Do Not Have a Public Health Crisis. We Have a Crisis of Law and Order
John Stoehr
Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board
Welcome to the Chip Wars
Pat Garofalo
Author and director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project