Author: Heidi White Logic seems like a bookish discipline, but its discovery was actually a response to urban political crisis in the fourth century B.C. More generally, a number…
Published November 30, 2018 by gb994
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Author: Rochelle Almeida In his review of her autobiography Daughter of the East, in The New York Review of Books, Ian Buruma describes Pakistan’s late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto…
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Published November 2, 2018 by gb994
Author: Nancy M. Reale, Ph.D. Each summer, NYU’s Liberal Studies offers a research and pedagogy symposium that brings together faculty who teach Liberal Studies courses at NYU’s sites around…
Published October 18, 2018 by gb994
Author: Martha C. Franks My course on American Law began with the question “What is Justice?” The students laughed and rolled their eyes, remembering discussions on Plato from their…
Published May 18, 2018 by gb994
Author: Raymond Ro Disclosure: it is difficult to teach politics without getting political. In the classroom, I facilitate discussion and debate by playing devil’s advocate. Any political leanings herein…
Published May 4, 2018 by gb994
Author: Scott Palmer The most important factor in the appreciation of any art is the practice of it. (35) Henry Miller, The Books of My Life One the central…
Read More Political Objects: Blending Cultural Analysis and Artistic Production
Published April 4, 2018 by gb994
Author: Peter Diamond In the week following the 2016 American presidential election, Oxford Dictionaries selected “post-truth” as its word of the year, a term signifying an environment in which “facts…
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Published March 22, 2018 by gb994
Author: Lisa Cesarani Most often, cinematic images of Florence are connected to the glorious art and architecture of its Renaissance past. The river Arno, its bridges, the narrow streets, and…
Read More Looking Beyond the Facade: Introducing Students to the Socio-Political Layers of Florence
Published March 7, 2018 by gb994
Author: Brendan Hogan This being the first iteration of a course co-taught by an economist (Dr. Johann Jaeckel) and a philosopher, that it was a paired course between London and NYC,…
Read More Critiques of capitalism: politics in the classroom.
Published February 21, 2018 by gb994
Author: Elisa Biagini How did we become such voracious consumers? Our overconsumption is destroying a world infinitely more fascinating than the stuff we produce. Do we really need so much…
Read More How greed became good: from Cosimo I Medici to Gordon Gecko