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Since the British Labour Party’s shattering defeat in last week’s general election, many people have been thinking through its implications for the left, and especially for the Democrats’ prospects in 2020. But what did the result mean for the right? Walter Russell Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College, weighs in.

Fifteen years ago, as the American Jewish Committee’s anti-Semitism expert, Kenneth Stern was the lead drafter of what was then called the “working definition of antisemitism.” Now the director of Bard’s Center for the Study of Hate, Stern pens an op-ed about President Trump's executive order applying the definition to college campuses. “It was never intended to be a campus hate speech code, but that’s what Donald Trump’s executive order accomplished this week. This order is an attack on academic freedom and free speech, and will harm not only pro-Palestinian advocates, but also Jewish students and faculty, and the academy itself.”

Bard alumna Eva Quinones ’17 has been named an Andrew Goodman Puffin Democracy Fellow. This multiyear fellowship will help Eva continue her work to increase voting access for young people. Eva majored in Economics and Global and International Studies at Bard, where she was an Andrew Goodman Vote Everywhere Ambassador and Team Leader and worked with Election@Bard to combat student disenfranchisement. Eva was also a member of the Bard Debate Union and the Student Government during her time on campus. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Political Science at Yale University, where she studies the political economy of voting behavior and democratic backslides. She also holds an MA from Yale.

Artificial intelligence and automation can streamline or eliminate manual labor, but public- and private-sector organizations still need managers to monitor and make corrections when algorithms exhibit biases, writes Russell.