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The use of violence against separatists in Catalonia on the day of the independence referendum wasn’t an aberration, writes Professor Encarnación.

Intolerance: Political Animals and Their Prey is the product of a year-long multi-disciplinary collaboration between faculty members of Bard College and the United States Military Academy at West Point. The project involved parallel seminar courses at both institutions along with joint sessions, all focused on the central theme of intolerance, and culminated in a three-day academic conference at Bard in the spring of 2015. This volume inaugurates a new series being published by Hamilton Books under the general title, Dialogues on Social Issues: Bard College and West Point.

Bard Conservatory alumnus Christopher Carroll is among the young movers and shakers of New York City, in his role as political director of the Associated Musicians of Greater New York.

What happens when Professor Daniel Mendelsohn's 81-year-old father enrolls in his Odyssey seminar at Bard? The author discusses his new memoir on Friday, October 20.

Richard Aldous, Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature, has penned a "compellingly narrated and well-researched" biography of historian Arthur Schlesinger.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Bard professor Sean McMeekin's book The Russian Revolution: A New History is reviewed by the New York Times Book Review.

Jonathan Cristol '00 Discusses Why Qatar's Isolation Only Makes Sense in Trump's World

Bard professor Omar G. Encarnación talks about the misogynistic political culture that helped bring down Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tonery Rogers ’19 has won David L. Boren Scholarship for $20,000 to study Arabic in Jordan for the spring and summer of 2018. Rogers is the first Bard student to win a Boren Scholarship, a federal initiative that encourages the study of language skills in countries critical to the future security and stability of our nation.

Professor Ellen Condliffe Lagemann talks about the Bard Prison Initiative, public funding for higher education, and finding incredible students in unlikely places.

Daniel Mendelsohn writes about how his 81-year-old father wanted to study Homer’s epic, took his son's undergraduate course at Bard, and then the two sailed together for Ithaca.

Ian Buruma, Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, reflects on Trump's recent military action in Syria and the American media reaction to it.

Bard College and the United States Military Academy at West Point present a conference entitled "Equality—More or Less?" from Wednesday, April 12 through Friday, April 14. The conference takes place in Blithewood Manor on the Bard College campus and is presented by Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Bard College; Graham Parsons, assistant professor of English & philosophy at West Point; and Robert Tully, professor of philosophy at West Point. The programs are free and open to the public and no reservations are required.

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.

Omar Encarnación, director of Bard's Political Studies Program, discusses Donald Trump through the lens of the Latin American phenomenon of the caudillo, or populist strongman.

"[I]t is ...the demand that people be treated as rights-bearers rather than remaining invisible or as victims or recipients of charity, that makes all the difference."

Professor of Political Studies Omar Encarnación examines the future of Obama's gay rights legacy under the Trump administration.

Historian and Rachel Carson biographer Mark Lytle is a significant voice in a new documentary on the famous conservationist and author of the highly influential book Silent Spring.

Professor Armstead talks about the significant African American presence in the Hudson Valley, beginning with the colonial period, through the Civil War, and to the post–World War II era.

In this interview with NPR's Robert Siegel, Ian Buruma, professor of human rights and journalism, talks about how the institutions of liberal democracy in the West seem to be unraveling.

Bard alumnus Duane Linklater's show at NYU's 80WSE gallery engages with questions about the under- and misrepresentation of indigenous artists in galleries and museums.

Bard professor and Hannah Arendt Center director Roger Berkowitz explains why Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism has surged in popularity after the presidential election.

Richard Aldous weighs in on why Hillary Clinton lost the election and how Donald Trump resembles Andrew Jackson.

Drones: Is the Sky the Limit?, the first major U.S. museum exhibition on pilotless aircraft, is set to open at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on May 10.

Elmira Bayrasli, faculty member at the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program in New York City, considers Russia-Turkey relations after the shooting of the Russian ambassador to Turkey.

Pavlina Tcherneva discusses growing European populism in light of recent terrorist attacks, and the possible implications for the European economy. Segment begins at 14:20.

The investigation into the murder of Ambassador Andrey Karlov may well bring Turkey and Russia together, mounting a united front against the U.S. in demanding justice for the killers.

James Ketterer, dean of international studies and BGIA director, takes an in-depth look at how Middle East policy could play out under the new Trump administration.

Professor Stern looks at the proposed Anti-Semitism Awareness Act and its potential to impede free speech about the Israel-Palestine conflict on college campuses.

Donald Trump is not a totalitarian, says Hannah Arendt Center director and Bard professor Roger Berkowitz, but his creation of a social movement is very dangerous—and the left is enabling it.

Much attention has been given to how the Trump administration could fail. Walter Russell Mead explores a possible path to success through energy policy.