Issues for the week of September 29, 2022 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of September 29

Previous Weeks

Democracy and Religion

Iran’s First Feminist Uprising

Kian Tajbakhsh

Academic Fellow at Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought and Senior Advisor at Columbia Global Centers

Why Christianity and the Fate of American Democracy Are Intertwined

Claire Potter and David Hollinger
nuclear war

Is Putin Bluffing in Ukraine?

Anastasia Shteinert

Political reporter and MA in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism, The New School for Social Research

Part 4: Moments of Moral Reckoning after Wars End

James Carroll

Author
Economic Antichrist

The Wall Street Journal Resurrects Mandeville

David Lay Williams

Professor of Political Science at DePaul University and author of The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx (Princeton, 2024)