Issues for the week of May 11, 2023 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of May 11

Previous Weeks

Am I Invisible?

Life As “The Blind Man”

Mitchell Abidor

Brooklyn-based writer and translator
Political Language

The Voice of Ukraine

Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

Preceptor in Ukrainian
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Harvard University

Ukraine Is Reclaiming Land and Tracking Down Collaborators

Paweł Pieniążek

Polish journalist and reporter

The Kremlin’s Nationalist Utopia

Igor Torbakov

Senior Fellow at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University
Listen to Labor

Hit Them in the Pocketbook

Claire Potter

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

The Rollback of Child Labor Laws

Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young