Author: Raymond Ro, NYU Shanghai China has been going through rapid development, an unparalleled rate of economic growth, and breakneck speed of urbanization in the past several decades. Indeed,…
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Author: Tim Tomlinson In Fatih Akin’s Head-On (Gegen die Wand) (2004), blackout drunk Cahit Tomruk drives at high speed straight into a brick wall. A suspected suicide (his vehicle…
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Author: Brendan Hogan This post grows out of my recent experience as a professor teaching abroad in London for three years, and Paris and Florence before that for one…
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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…
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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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…
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…
