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

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Curated Essays for the

Week of April 20

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