Issues for the week of July 28, 2022 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of July 28

Previous Weeks

Rewriting History

Burning Cities

Altair Brandon-Salmon

Altair Brandon-Salmon is a PhD candidate in the History of Art at Stanford University

Interpretations of the Past

Max Pierce and Michael D. Hattem
Sustainability

Ending Exploitation in the Fashion Industry

Nandita Shivakumar and Aabid Firdausi
Watching Politics

The United States Is Not A Christian Nation—And Should Not Be Remade Into One

Arlene Stein and Phil Zuckerman

Why Political Campaigns Are Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones

Micah L. Sifry

Author and co-founder of Civic Hall
“Where Were All the Queers?”

Seeking (and Shaping) Queer Space

Radhika Rajkumar

Writer, researcher, and graduate student living in New York