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Daniel Wortel-London for Jacobin: “Zohran Mamdani Can Reduce New York’s Dependence on the Rich”

“History also reveals a more sobering lesson: you can’t finance progressive policies with a regressive economy,” he writes.
Omar G. Encarnación for <em>Time</em>: “50 Years After Franco’s Death, Spain Confronts Its Dark Past”

Omar G. Encarnación for Time: “50 Years After Franco’s Death, Spain Confronts Its Dark Past”

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Professor Daniel Wortel-London Quoted in Al Jazeera Article About Mamdani’s Win in NYC

He told Al Jazeera that Mamdani’s win signified that “affordability is the defining issue of our time.”

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June 2017

06-26-2017
Philosophy and Literature editor Garry Hagberg talks about the groundbreaking journal and the types of scholarship it regularly features. Hagberg discusses how the journal delves into questions of human motivation, ethical concerns and the power of language.
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Meta: Subject(s): Academics,Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies |
06-19-2017
If it is ever proved that Lenin was acting on behalf of the German Imperial Government in 1917, the implications for our understanding of the October Revolution, and the Soviet Communist regime born of it, which lasted until 1991, would be profound. Meekin asks: Was it true?
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Meta: Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs |
06-13-2017
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Meta: Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Center for Civic Engagement |
06-06-2017
Buruma argues that the post-1945 order constructed by the US in Europe and East Asia has been fraying at the edges for some time now. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement has only hastened its unraveling.
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Meta: Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program |
06-06-2017
Bard professor Sean McMeekin's book The Russian Revolution: A New History is reviewed by the New York Times Book Review.
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Meta: Subject(s): Academics,Division of Social Studies |
06-06-2017
Jonathan Cristol '00 Discusses Why Qatar's Isolation Only Makes Sense in Trump's World
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Meta: Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Center for Civic Engagement |
06-02-2017
Bard professor Omar G. Encarnación talks about the misogynistic political culture that helped bring down Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
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