Issues for the week of August 25, 2022 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of August 25

Previous Weeks

Summer Syllabi: Books

We Are a Reckoning

Deva Woodly

Associate Professor of Politics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at The New School for Social Research

Anarchafeminism

Chiara Bottici

Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research

Let the People Decide What Counts as Public Goods

Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian

AI Spy With My Little Eye: Facial Recognition

Patrick K. Lin

Author and law student at Brooklyn Law School

The Experiment

Stephen G. Bloom

Award-winning journalist and author. Professor of Journalism at the University of Iowa.

The Blast

Joseph Matthews

Author

Something Like Freedom

Ana-Maurine Lara and drea brown

The Color of Abolition

Linda Hirshman

Lawyer, cultural historian, and author

The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives

Jonathan Malesic

Author