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Trump's inauguration featured no poetry. We fixed that.
Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.
John Bowen, Aziz Rana
What can W. E. B. Du Bois and the black radical tradition tell us about Trump's election and radical political action today?
Walter Johnson
Our critique of the present is essential to producing a future.
Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz dissects Donald Trump's misogynist rhetoric and the larger societal forces that make it possible.
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John Berger
Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel discuss the Syrian civil war and the possibility of international
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On December 2, 2013, the Center for Middle East Studies at University of Denver co-hosted a debate on Syria with Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought.
Keston Sutherland and Geoffrey G. O’Brien in Performance
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BR Fiction Editor Junot Díaz in conversation with Toni Morrison (video).
Daniel Evans Pritchard
C-SPAN filmed BR's event at MIT, where Chomsky spoke on the subject of his new book, On Anarchism: the political ideology, its history, current usage, and practicality.
Noam Chomsky
Harvard climate scientist David Keith leads a discussion about his new book, A Case for Climate Engineering, explaining climate engineering as a tool to combat global warming. He is joined by MIT political scientists Kenneth Oye and Stephen Van Evera.
David Keith
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