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

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Curated Essays for the

Week of July 28

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