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Legendary editor Robert B. Silvers died on March 20 at the age of 87 after 54 years at the helm of the New York Review of Books.

Bard professor and Hannah Arendt Center director Roger Berkowitz examines the similarities between totalitarian movements and the mass populist movement led by President Trump.

Professor Buruma explores the intricacies of Dutch politics through the populist politician Geert Wilders.

The Nature of Whiteness, by Associate Professor of Anthropology Yuka Suzuki, explores the intertwining of race and nature in postindependence Zimbabwe. Nature and environment have played prominent roles in white Zimbabwean identity, and when the political tide turned against white farmers after independence, nature was the most powerful resource they had at their disposal. In the 1970s, “Mlilo,” a private conservancy sharing boundaries with Hwange National Park, became the first site in Zimbabwe to experiment with “wildlife production,” and by the 1990s, wildlife tourism had become one of the most lucrative industries in the country. Mlilo attained international notoriety in 2015 as the place where Cecil the Lion was killed by a trophy hunter.

Yuka Suzuki provides a balanced study of whiteness, the conservation of nature, and contested belonging in twenty-first-century southern Africa. The Nature of Whiteness is a fascinating account of human-animal relations and the interplay among categories of race and nature in this embattled landscape.

Suzuki, Yuka (2017). The Nature of Whiteness: Race, Animals, and Nation in Zimbabwe. Seattle: UWashington.

Senior economics major John Henry Glascock is a captain of the men’s lacrosse team at Bard, maintains a 3.88 GPA, and has played a major role in the success of his team as the starting goalie for the past four years. Last summer he interned at Swiss financial firm UBS in Manhattan. At the end of the internship, he was offered a job after graduation, which he accepted. Glascock is a strong candidate for the Academic All-American Award in lacrosse, which would make him only the second student athlete in Bard history to receive the honor.

"For the first time in 70 years, the American people have elected a president who disparages the policies, ideas, and institutions at the heart of postwar U.S. foreign policy."

Mark Danner examines how President Trump is shattering norms and transforming the role of the presidency.