Issues for the week of April 6, 2023 - Public Seminar

Group of children holds signs in support of El Maizal Commune.

How Venezuelans Reclaimed Their Communes

March 6, 2025Gant Roberson

Rethinking Empathy

March 4, 2025Elide Vincenti

Israel’s Grotesque Violation of Jewish Values

March 3, 2025Mitchell Abidor

No More Girl Bosses

February 28, 2025Claire Potter

A group of asylum-seekers is being processed by US Customs and Border Protection officers and agents. A line of people with baggage at the US border faded in black and white while focusing on a child holding a plush toy and documentation.

Asylum and the Hierarchy of Suffering

February 27, 2025Charlotte Soehner, Olivia Woldemikael

Detail of a mosaic in which two hands use a rural and pencil to create an achitectural design

In Search of the Sublime … Underground

February 26, 2025Mary Karmelek

Photograph of a bronze mold of Abraham Lincoln's hand grasping a wooden stick.

“If You Wish to Know Who a Man Truly Is, Give Him Power”

February 25, 2025Melvin L. Rogers

Hattam Fragmented color photograph of a smashed wall of broken glass with blue sky showing through the cracks

February 24, 2025Victoria Hattam

Man gestures to strong man with folded arms

What Is Illiberal Democracy?

February 20, 2025Senem Aydin-Düzgit, Mark Frazier, Jeffrey C. Isaac, Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Black-and-white close-up of donkey face. Mountains in background.

Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest Is Silence

February 20, 2025Madeleine Adams

Arise, Ye Workers From Your Slumbers

February 19, 2025Claire Potter

Putin's Retrotopia

Vladimir Putin, Man of Yesterday

February 19, 2025Alex Rossen

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Curated Essays for the

Week of April 6

Special Issue: Rats! A Cautionary Tail
Sex Life of a Vector
Evangeline Riddiford Graham
Host and producer of Multi-Verse and instructor in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism at The New School
“Everyone Has a Role in Rat Control”
Caroline Bragdon and Katy Einerson
Extermination: From Plague, to War
Rafi Youatt
Associate Professor of Global Politics, The New School
Hitchhikers and Stowaways
Anna Boswell
Writer and scholar living in Aotearoa/New Zealand
The Rat with a Right to Free Speech
Cassandra Brey
Third-year Arts in Context Major at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School
Report from the Rat Academy
Radhika Subramaniam
Associate Professor of Visual Culture, Parsons School of Design, The New School
How to Kill 100 Rats
Curran Boyd
Essayist from San Diego living in New York City
Year of the Rat
Marc Anthony Richardson
Artist and novelist