Issues for the week of March 3, 2022 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of March 3

Previous Weeks

Authority and Freedom in the Arts

Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts

Jed Perl

Author and critic

How Many Americans Believe that Art Has Any Value?

Lindsey Scharold

MA candidate in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism at the New School for Social Research

The Arts and the “Fierce Urgency of Now”

Katha Pollitt

Poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation

Pythagorean Mysticism

Paul Berman

Author

Revolution in the Service of Poetry?

Greil Marcus

Author, art critic

Authority as Freedom: Aretha Franklin at the Kennedy Center, 2015

Ingrid Rowland

Professor at the University of Notre Dame

The Hip-Hop Revolution that Never Happened

John McWhorter

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University

“You Make it Art First”

Jed Perl

Author and critic