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

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Curated Essays for the

Week of November 4

Previous Weeks

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