Where Do We Go From Here?

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 6:00pm

Betsy Bowman, Cliff DuRand & Steve Gloss

The liberal political order is collapsing worldwide. Discredited neoliberal economics is resurgent. Inequality widens as a matter of public policy. Nuclear boat diplomacy threatens us all. Climate catastrophe looms. There is great anxiety as the US enters the second year of the Trump presidency. Anxiety … and outrage. Our panel discusses the present conjuncture and the possibilities that it contains. Is this the worst of times? Or might it open the way to the best of times?

Available texts:

Betsy Bowman - The Current Historical Conjuncture: Socialism or Barbarism?

Steve Gloss - Our Journey

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The Delicate Art of Covering the Narco Beat in Sinaloa

Arturo Santamaria Gómez

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Everyday life in the San Miguel "bubble" is worlds away from that in Sinaloa, where cartel activity is a normal presence in the every fiber of politics, commerce and everyday life. Its perception within Sinaloa comes at least as much from ambient backdrop as through efforts in the media to pierce the curtain. Not many writers take on that... Read more

Monday, August 5, 2024 - 1:00pm

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Book Party

This is Life; "Haik al-Haya:" Five Years Teaching in Palestine

Cynthia Yoder

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Cynthia Yoder's memoir tells her story of working in a new university in Palestine during a time of political strife and upheaval. She describes the joys of life in Palestine against the backdrop of military occupation and the second intifada, which began soon after she arrived in 2000. Rather than give political analysis, the book... Read more

Monday, August 12, 2024 - 1:00pm

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The Contradictions of Global Migration

Vijay Prashad

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Each year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) releases its World Migration Report. In 2000, it wrote that “it is estimated that there are more migrants in the world than ever before.” Between 1985 and 1990, the IOM calculated, that the rate... Read more