Posted: Jul 28th, 2010 | Comments: 2
Women in Charge: The Evolving Role of Women in Politics
For the first time in over 200 years, a woman serves as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. This year, we witnessed the historic campaign of the country's ...
Satyagraha Forum: The Poetry of Peace and Politics
Is poetry inevitably political? Can language provoke peace? Spearheaded by Anne Waldman, a founder and current Director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, and ...
Posted: May 2nd, 2008 | Comments: 0
The Road to 2008: Presidential Politics Today with Arianna Huffington
An up-to-the-minute, headline-driven analysis of the 2008 presidential election with Arianna Huffingon, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the influential Huffington Post. At the helm of one of the most active ...
Posted: Apr 17th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Despite significant losses in the 2006 midterm elections, the Republican Right remains a powerful force in American politics. In his book The Conservative Ascendancy, Donald Critchlow explores the ...
Posted: Feb 27th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy lectures on his new book, SELLOUT: THE POLITICS OF RACIAL BETRAYAL. This lecture was delivered at Cooper Union.
Posted: Jan 10th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Deceiving Images: The Science of Manipulation
How are political messages framed? How are they decoded by their audience? Three experts in fields of communications, psychology, and linguistics — George Lakoff, Frank Luntz, and Drew Westen — ...
Posted: Nov 7th, 2007 | Comments: 2
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
Do environmentalists utilize a politics of fear? Do progressive politics appeal to hopes and desires, or to nightmares? n+1 contributors Meghan Falvey, Alex Gourevitch, Mark Greif and Chad Harbach debate, ...
Posted: Oct 30th, 2007 | Comments: 0
