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GUEST SPEAKERS Luis Tapia, CIDES, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University Bruno Bosteels, Columbia University Today's call for diversity in the United States quite often reduces itself to body counts. René Zavaleta Mercado (1937-1984) confronted the question of respecting diversity in the analysis of social reality in the twentieth century. Luis Tapia’s _Towards a History of the National-Popular in Bolivia, _now translated into English for the first time, confronts this question not only in terms of mere inclusion and exclusion but in t...

Congratulations! "organized labor" wins our Hemingway award for April 12, 2023.

Harvard college to harvard law school leading off our discussion tonight, is harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and forme deputy assistant attorne general. he is now senior legal affairs columnist for the los angele times. also with us, charles coleman, former federal prosecutor an former senior assistan district attorney and brooklyn he is now a civil rights attorney at an msnbc legal analyst. charles, let me begin with you with your all and importan local knowledge and experience in district attorney proceedings in new york city we seem to be very close to th end here, what is your reading ...

Running Breakwater on an island – and in a province whose capital city lacks a dedicated independent bookstore at the moment – has made resilience and flexibility necessary for survival.

Louder in a bigger house, or be more muted in a bigger house? >> the great thing about a bigger house is, again, that representatives will be closer to their constituents. and what that means is there's actually a chance for local news, local knowledge, local information, to start to do a better job again. right now we are operating in a democracy with news deserts all over the country. and then the only access to people have information about their representatives comes through national media. that produces a really distorting and polarizing effect. so if we can get representatives closer to ...