April 20, 2018 Associated Press
The AP has confirmed findings by Professor David Kertzer that Edgardo Mortara's memoirs were changed in ways big and small when they were translated from the original Spanish into Italian.
April 20, 2018 News from Brown
Among the winners of the annual award program is Professor Rose McDermott, who "earned a Distinguished Research Achievement Award for her pioneering scholarship, including in the area of political psychology, and her innovative interdisciplinary work across political science, international relations, psychology and behavioral genetics."
April 18, 2018 The Outline
Public Policy Fellow Marc Dunkleman, said he loves the idea of an ecosystem of entrepreneurs "trying to figure out ways to address" the lack of person-to-person connection in today's society, but he criticized startups for setting up meetings between like-minded people who may not learn more about the world from talking to each other.
April 18, 2018 Dan Yorke State of Mind
Students Alexander Kramer '21 and Emma Chow '21 joined Dan Yorke's State of Mind to discuss the Trump administration's views on youth engagement in politics. Both students are currently enrolled in Michael Kennedy's political sociology courses.
April 17, 2018 Quartz
Americans' tax records are the best dataset for assessing income inequality and the odds that a child born poor can become rich. The IRS still only accepts a small number of applications for studies every year, and a list put together by economist John Friedman shows they are almost all from elite schools.
April 16, 2018 The Atlantic
Professor David Kertzer in The Atlantic, "Today, the Edgardo Mortara episode continues to roil the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic-Jewish relations."
April 12, 2018 Quartz
While initially reluctant to get entangled in the war in Syria, the U.S. is now prepared to be more involved than ever. In fiscal year 2019, the government assigned $15.3 billion of Department of Defense funds for U.S. operations there.
April 4, 2018 Wall Street Journal
President Trump said on Tuesday that he wanted the U.S. military to "bring our troops back home" from Syria and "start rebuilding our nation." He has claimed that the U.S. has spent $7 trillion in the Middle East since 2001; the Cost of War Project estimates the U.S. has spent $1.8 trillion in direct costs and $4.3 trillion in direct and indirect costs.
March 30, 2018 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "Liberals are opposed to Hindu nationalism because it is a form of ethnic nationalism; it is not civic nationalism."
March 29, 2018 Dan Yorke State of Mind
Sociologist Michael Kennedy joined Dan Yorke State of Mind to examine the Trump presidency, from Stormy Daniels to the hiring of John Bolton as the new national security advisor.
March 28, 2018 Forward
"What Anatomy of a Genocide provides instead is perhaps more valuable: A searing portrait of how the Holocaust worked on the ground for ordinary men and women — onetime neighbors and friends whose disparate fates were determined by ethnicity and chance."
March 26, 2018 The Nation
The news that President Trump will install John Bolton as his next national security adviser comes at a time when, by some estimates, the U.S. is waging at least nine undeclared wars across the globe.
March 26, 2018 The Boston Globe
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Divine visitations are the most powerful of all dreams...Among those believers was one of the most devout American presidents, William McKinley.
March 23, 2018 The Hill
The column cites research by the Costs of War project that estimates America's Afghanistan-related spending totals nearly $1 trillion since 2001.
March 21, 2018 C-SPAN
During a Senate debate on the Yemen War Powers Resolution on March 20, 2018, lawmakers discussed the extent of U.S. force abroad and Congress's role in making decisions about where the U.S. goes to war. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) cited new Brown University Costs of War project data showing that the U.S. is taking military action against terrorism in 76 countries. "How often," he asked, "has Congress debated whether those military actions were authorized?"
March 21, 2018 The Boston Globe
On the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Globe columnist Michael Cohen observed that though the "so-called war on terrorism is far from over," Americans have, for the most part, moved on. That's despite the fact, he said, that indirect costs from the war total more than $5.5 trillion, according to Brown's Costs of War project.
March 21, 2018 NPR
Catherine Lutz, a professor of anthropology, called National Geographic's past coverage "a kind of white view of the world ... it's safe, and it's basically free of problems." The magazine's forthcoming issue will confront its own racist past.
March 20, 2018 Washington Post Magazine
The morning after President Trump's first travel ban, Robert Blair, assistant professor of political science, was inspired to create a class that addressed three questions troubling him: "Is America's democracy at risk? If it is, how would we know? If it's not, why are we all so freaked out that it is?"
March 19, 2018 Chicago Tribune
Professor Catherine Lutz comments on National Geographic's recent admission of its racist past. “There was a lot of ways that the racism was complex more than just captions saying, ‘These are savages.’”
March 19, 2018 African American Intellectual History Society
In African American Intellectual History Society's Black Perspectives, sociologist Michael Kennedy says, "It is about time that the Black Panther helps us move beyond the politeness accommodating white supremacy."