Exile and Instability for Refugees
Two literary masters, Andre Aciman and Aleksander Hemon, discuss displacement, exile and memory at a Graduate Center event. “It’s so easy to expect that by virtue of being in the U.S. you have to be...
View ArticleGay Talese Gives Curiosity the Credit
Legendary journalist Gay Talese admits that a lot of his talent stems from his innate curiosity about his subjects, real or imagined. “I’m not creating anything. What I am doing is trying, as best I...
View ArticleConfronting Income Inequality
The one percent versus the 99 percent – an old story by now, but one that etches societies to varying degrees in countries around the world. Interim Chancellor William P. Kelly explores the issue with...
View ArticleThe Craft of Writing From Two Artists
Interim Chancellor William Kelly engages two of the University’s most distinctive stylists on the art and craft of teaching writing, Andre Aciman of the Graduate Center and the author of seven books,...
View ArticleHolocaust of Evil, Not Banality
Fifty years ago, philosopher Hannah Arendt set off a firestorm with a series for The New Yorker, “Eichmann: An Report on the Banality of Evil,” calling him not a “monster” but a “clown.” In a lecture,...
View ArticleHeidegger’s Private Anti-Semitic Notes
With the recent publication in Germany of the notebooks of Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger, the controversial figure has been brought back to life. Richard Wolin, a Distinguished Professor of history...
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‘The Orphan Scandal’ and the Muslim Brotherhood
In her new book, The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, City College history professor Beth Baron recounts the brutal beating of a 15-year-old Muslim girl by...
View ArticleBlood for Blood
A few years after the Armenian genocide of 1915-16, several ex-leaders of the former Ottoman Empire met sudden violent deaths at the hands of assassins. Armenian-American actor Eric Bogosian tells the...
View ArticleWaiting for Equality
If marriage equality can become politically acceptable in the United States, so can the concept of the government promoting income equality, Paul Krugman says — but he thinks it will take a cycle of...
View ArticleRescuing Refugees
The brutal armed conflict in Syria and lack of economic opportunity are just two reasons some 5,000 people a day leave their homes in the Middle East and Africa and risk their lives to try for a new...
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