Issues for the week of April 20, 2023 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of April 20

Previous Weeks

The Politics of Sex

Am I a Heteropessimist?

Josephine Houman

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

Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work

Elena Shih

Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies and director of Human Trafficking Research Cluster, Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University
Philosophy on Film

Nihilism for the Whole Family!

Ken Hu

Liberal Studies MA graduate from NSSR
At the Border

The Violence of American Border Policies Continues

Rachel Ida Buff

Writer and History Professor at The University of Wisconsin.
Dispatches from Capitalism

When Medicine Turns Capital

Victor Roy and Emma Pirnay

Extremism in Defense of Liberty Is No Vice

Claire Potter

Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research