The Rebirth of Tragedy
"We are all existentialists now, knowing only that we must try to carry on," says Arthur Goldhammer.
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5 Lessons from the Coronavirus about Inequality in America
CES Local Affiliate, shares a perspective on inequality and the uneven impact of the pandemic across the U.S.
How the Coronavirus Could Create a New Working Class
CES Resident Faculty, Peter Hall and Bart Bonikowski, provide insights into the creation of a new working class and how the outbreak can lead to a rise in populism.
After the Pandemic: Perils and Promise for Western Balkans
As the coronavirus brings out the best and worst in countries in Southeast Europe, the democratic health of the region is at stake, says CES Visiting Scholar Albana Shehaj.
Herzl Re-imagined: Derek Penslar weighs the impact of Theodor Herzl’s personal power
Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, has long studied modern Jewish history from a global perspective. In his new biography of Theodor Herzl, Penslar, resident faculty ...
COVID-19 – Moving classes online, Other updates
Harvard will begin transitioning to virtual instruction for graduate and undergraduate classes. Our goal is to have this transition complete by Monday, March 23, the first day of scheduled classes following Spring Recess.
How societies justify, sustain, and eventually dismantle inequality
Thomas Piketty takes a long look at global history and ways to redistribute wealth ahead of his address to open the Stanley Hoffmann Lecture on France and the World on March 6, 2020. The event will be livestreamed starting at 5:00pm.
William Barr thinks China is stealing American technology. Can the U.S. halt the exchange of knowledge?
Some U.S. government moves to halt China’s technology theft could cause significant brain drain and hurt the scientific community, argue Peter A. Hall & Yeling Tan.
New Athens mayor wants to rebuild the city
The new mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, M.P.A. ’04, wants to rebuild the capital from the ground up. He spoke to CES Executive Director Elaine Papoulias about his plans and challenges.
Why Historical Analogy Matters
In this article, Peter E. Gordon assesses what it means when scholars entertain analogies between different events, and how it is possible to compare events that occurred in widely different circumstances?
