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Bard professor Richard Aldous reviews the new book Churchill and Orwell by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and NYT Book Review’s military history columnist Thomas Ricks.

Ketterer, Director of BGIA and Dean of International Studies at Bard College, discusses why Egypt may be more important to U.S. foreign policy than one might think with Fordham Conversations Host Kacie Candela.

The New York Review of Books has announced that Ian Buruma, Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, will be its next editor, succeeding Robert B. Silvers, who died in March at 87. The announcement ended one of the New York literary world’s favorite, and longest-running, parlor games: guessing who would follow Mr. Silvers, who, along with Barbara Epstein, founded the magazine in 1963, and continued to work as its sole editor until weeks before his death.

Buruma questions whether the political terms “left” and “right,” coined after the French Revolution of 1789, still fit contemporary politics.

Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities, reviews DEMOCRACY Stories From the Long Road to Freedom by Condoleezza Rice.