Issues for the week of November 4, 2021 - Public Seminar

Black and white image photograph of woman sitting next to bed on which a man's boots are visible

Downward Mobility as a Relative Loss in Economic Security

December 19, 2024Teresa Ghilarducci, Ludovica Tursini

Image of front and reverse of gold coin

Social Capitalism: An Alternative to Neoliberalism

December 18, 2024Mark Setterfield

Dark blue book cover with a green plant and yellow and orange flowers. The text reads The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo.

The Witches of El Paso

December 11, 2024Luis Jaramillo

Generations of Women in The Witches of El Paso

December 11, 2024Marisol Aveline Delarosa, Luis Jaramillo

Clothing waste piles up on a beach

The Fashion for Baiting, Brainwashing, and Bullying

December 10, 2024Hannah McIntyre

December 9, 2024Honor Moore

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868) Marie Denise Villers French 1801

December 9, 2024Honor Moore, Elide Vincenti

Woodblock poster of Marx in front of factories

Reconstructing Capital

December 6, 2024Gant Roberson, William Clare Roberts

Joint Landscape by Shen Zhou

Misanthropy Is Having a Moment

December 5, 2024Alex Rossen

December 4, 2024Claire Potter

Children's school book in a pile of burnt rubble

Schools Are for Children, Not Soldiers

December 3, 2024Charles Bradley

Perfect Days

A Monk Without a Monastery

December 2, 2024Daniel Kopp, Nicholas Johnston

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Curated Essays for the

Week of November 4

CULTURE WARS
The Power of Empty Terms
Zora Hesová
Assistant professor at the Institute of Political Studies in the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague
The Most Dangerous Man in France
France Unleashes its Racist Demons
Mitchell Abidor and Miguel Lago
How to Think About a Plague
How COVID-19 Became a Crisis
Janet Roitman
Professor of Anthropology at The New School
A Psychopath Finds Love
Titane: Transformative Gender and Intimacy
Melinda Freudenberger
Poet and New School MFA graduate
FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD
Don’t Kill Facebook: Reform It
Claire Potter
Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
Five Years of Silence
Pat Garofalo
Author and director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project