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...University of Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum, “Empire” author Michael Hardt, and feminist post-structuralist Judith Butler. Despite her experience, Taylor reveals her anxieties about making philosophical film in a conversation with NYU professor Avital Ronell, the first onscreen thinker after “Matrix Revolutions?? celebrity-philosopher Cornel West.Philosophical thinking has traditionally taken place in the written form, which gives both its deliverer and its audience enough time to explore ideas in-depth and parse out the details of the arguments. Taylor is justified, then, in the fast-paced aspect of her endeavor?...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Examined Life | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...Today, Russia is a democracy in which the voters support the rolling back of democratic values, has a military that quietly suffered far greater humiliation in Chechnya than America could ever suffer in Iraq, and faces anti-Russian democratic “revolutions?? in the Ukraine and Georgia that further humiliated the motherland. Yet Russian economic nationalism is more intense than ever, and, because of economic power from oil and natural gas, its ability to dominate its neighbors is growing, not diminishing. Last January, economically vulnerable Ukraine was threatened with a quadrupling of the natural gas price that...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: The Last Gasp of Big Ideas | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

...more-or-less painless category that touts some of the College’s strongest professors and a sexy lineup of courses, ranging from Foreign Cultures 67, “Popular Culture in Modern China” to FC 63, “China’s Two Social Revolutions?? to cross-listed Historical Sutdy A-13, “China: Traditions and Transformations” to FC 48, “The Cultural Revolution.” See people? It’s all about choice.In poaching David Wang from Columbia, Harvard made a good choice. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Cultures | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...rejection” in 1980, Skocpol has risen to the top of the ivory tower. Before serving as dean of GSAS, she was elected president of the 14,000-member American Political Science Association. She has authored eight books since the publication of “States and Social Revolutions?? and advised President Bill Clinton while he was in office. Her name has surfaced among potential candidates for dean of the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences.When asked to explain how his department rejected a scholar who has had such success, White responds...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Denied Tenure, Skocpol Alleged Sexual Discrimination | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

After two disastrous Supply-Side-ista revolutions??Reagan and Bush II—I can understand why so many economists are fed up with the Republican Party. As Bush put it in Friday’s debate “Yeah, I’m worried. I’m worried. I’m worried about our country.” Fifty professors at the Harvard Business School and over 100 economists from other schools—including two Nobel Prize winners—are worried about our country too. That’s why they recently...

Author: By Eoghan W. Stafford, | Title: You Say You Want a Revolution? | 10/12/2004 | See Source »

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