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Bard College senior Kevin Barbosa has been named a Forbes Under 30 Scholar. Kevin is part of a diverse group of students that will have free admission and countless networking opportunities at next month's Forbes Under 30 Summit in Boston. Kevin studies politics at Bard and was nominated for the honor by Jopwell, a career advancement platform for Black, Latino/Hispanic, and Native American students and professionals. His Senior Project is a comparative study of Brazilian and Chinese history that seeks to understand how their unique backgrounds have influenced their foreign policy, and will affect the contours of the modern international order. Kevin is also on the Varsity Swim Team, works as a senior strategist on Bard's 100 Days Initiative, and is a senior fellow with the Difference & Media Project. Finally, he is speaker of the student body this year. Over the summer he accepted an offer with Goldman Sachs, and will be working there full time after graduation.

The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war has served as a monument to the folly of well-meaning politicians. Richard Aldous reviews The Internationalists by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro.

Bard professor Daniel Mendelsohn's new memoir, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic, recalls the semester his father decided to join his Odyssey seminar at Bard.

After President Uhuru Kenyatta won another term last month, the international community praised the fairness of the election. Helen Epstein questions the validity of the results.