Posted: Oct 6th, 2008 | Comments: 2
Trafficking the Traffickers: Undercover Ethnography in the Organs Trafficking Underworld
Nancy Scheper-Hughes studies the covert activities surrounding organ transplants by renegade surgeons, international organized crime networks, local kidney hunters and so called transplant tourists engaged in ‘back-door’ and ...
Branding Democracy: Barack Obama and the American Void
Simon Critchley examines Obama's subjectivity, the existential detachment that seems to haunt him, and its relation to democracy. When democracy is promoted as a brand, it can be ...
Posted: Sep 18th, 2008 | Comments: 2
One of the country’s most prominent and respected journalists, Bill Moyers has been a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, a senior White House assistant and press secretary to ...
Posted: Sep 16th, 2008 | Comments: 0
From Soundbites to Solutions Part Two: How the Media Influence and Reflect Political Realities
The 2008 presidential primaries brought race, gender and age issues to the front page, whether warranted or not. This second of two panels focuses on the roles and responsibilities of ...
Posted: Jun 17th, 2008 | Comments: 0
The late Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the great scholar of the New Deal, liked to talk about how the best historians know that history is "an argument without end." Now ...
Posted: May 27th, 2008 | Comments: 0
The Nation: Politics at the Center of the Storm
A pioneering political blogger with The Nation’s “Online Beat” and the magazine’s Washington correspondent, John Nichols is one of America’s most respected political writers and experts on impeachment ...
Posted: Mar 25th, 2008 | Comments: 2
The Nation: Reflections from the Editor
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, America's oldest weekly magazine, will reflect on the magazine’s 142-year history and offer her views on the role of The ...
Posted: Feb 26th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Katha Pollitt & Anna Quindlen in Conversation
Katha Pollitt, a columnist for THE NATION, speaks with fellow journalist and writer Anna Quindlen about personal and political writing. The forum was held at The CUNY Graduate ...
Posted: Nov 5th, 2007 | Comments: 0
