Issues for the week of January 26, 2023 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of January 26

Previous Weeks

Classics Reconsidered

The Little Prince and the Allure of Sadness

Alla Anatsko

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

I Think of It as a Diary

Lindsey Scharold and Anne Waldman

Bard, Kinetic

Anne Waldman

Author and Poet
Feminism Today

Being a Bad Feminist

Amalie Thieden

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

Austerity, Then and Now

Clara Mattei

Assistant Professor in Economics at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School

Why We Should Worry about Inequality

David Lay Williams

Professor of Political Science at DePaul University and author of The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx (Princeton, 2024)