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Logue's Homer, "because of its radical departures, gets us closer to the original than many more defensibly 'faithful' translations have ever managed."

The Human Rights Project presents a lecture by Mark Danner, "The Management of Savagery: The Islamic State, Extreme Violence and Our Endless War," on Tuesday, December 1, at 6 p.m. in the Reem-Kayden Center room 103. Nearly a decade and a half after 9/11, the attacks in Paris have given another strong dose of the fear and panic that, since 2001, have done so much to nourish our enemies and indeed to create new ones. More and more we seem trapped in a self-perpetuating Forever War, doomed to endlessly play a part our enemies have designed for us. Is there any escape? 

Professor Romm on the "wickedly subversive" classicist Mary Beard and her recent lecture series at Bard, “Last Words: Roman Epitaphs and Their ‘Afterlife.’”

Professor Ian Buruma has been described as “one of the few remaining ‘public intellectuals’."

Center for Civic Engagement Senior Fellow Jonathan Cristol discusses revisions to the UNSC within the current structure.

In light of the Iraqi and Syrian refugee crisis, Tehseen Thaver Explores Mona Siddiqui’s Hospitality and Islam: Welcoming in God’s Name.

"Beard, who teaches classics at Cambridge, is a perennial champion of Rome's underrepresented and oppressed," writes Professor Romm.