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Brexit and Beyond podcast with Peter A Hall
The terrible scenes on Capitol Hill illustrate how Donald Trump has changed his party
The most important book of the Trump era was not Bob Woodward’s “Fear” or Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” or any of the other bestselling exposes of the White House circus. Arguably it was a wonkish tome by two Harvard political scientists, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, published a year into Donald Trump’s presidency and entitled “How Democracies Die”.

Scapegoating Trump: Reflections on the Question of Fascism in America
Peter E. Gordon questions what really caused the anti-democratic assault on the Capitol and whether we should call the President a fascist.

At The Heart of "Where Harvard and Europe Meet": An Interview with Anna Popiel on Her Retirement
We sat down with Anna Popiel to talk about her upcoming retirement and her 36 years behind the reception desk at CES. Starting at Bryant Street with cramped working conditions and a typewriter, Anna has seen the Center grow and change. For many, she has become the heart of Adolphus Busch Hall and in many ways she represents ‘where Harvard and Europe meet.’
Mr. Germany
Zum Tod des großen Institutionengründers Guido Goldman
Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements
Author Conversations Series, Fall 2020. Produced by the Harvard University Asia Center

Poet of the Impossible: Paul Celan at 100
Among the most innovative poets of European modernism, he forged a new path for poetry after the terrors of the twentieth century. Do we still know how to read him?
Guido Goldman, Co-Founder of Center for European Studies, Dies at 83
In their 30-year collegial relationship, what Professor Charles S. Maier ’60 remembers most about Guido G. Goldman ’59 is his “magic sense of connectivity” — a connectivity that stretched from personal relationships to trans-Atlantic partnerships.