Issues for the week of September 23, 2021 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of September 23

Featured Essay
A Pencil For Your Land
Casper Andersen
Senior lecturer, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
Sex
Kathy Acker’s Astrologer Told Her She Would Meet Somebody—and That Was Me
Claire Potter and McKenzie Wark
Activism
“Justice for J6” Rally Was Much Ado About Nothing
Jo Freeman
Jo Freeman is a writer and photographer.
We Are All “First Liners”
Aura Angélica Hernández Cárdenas
PhD Student in Sociology, The New School for Social Research
Ten Years After Occupy Wall Street
Nara Roberta Silva
Sociologist and teacher at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Finance
The “K” in the Economy
Andrew Moon and Janet Roitman
Our Columnists
Drone Strikes and Civilian Casualties
Heather Cox Richardson
Professor of History, Boston College
The Biggest Media Bias That No One Is Talking About
John Stoehr
Visiting assistant professor of public policy and liberal studies at Wesleyan University, and editor and publisher of the Editorial Board
How Corporate Subsidies Sink Small Businesses
Pat Garofalo
Author and director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project