Publications
In the News
- France Shows Its True Colors
- by Lamont, Michèle; Laurent, Éloi
- Publisher: Boston Globe
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- More than six months have passed since last fall's violent urban riots, and France finds itself engaged in another parliamentary debate on the integration of immigrants. The right wing, which...
- Published Date: June 2006 More
- We Contain Multitudes
- by Yoshino, Kenji
- Publisher: New York Times
- Publication Type: Book Review
- "My first exposure to murder," the Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen writes in Identity and Violence, "occurred when I was 11." It was 1944, a few years before the end of the...
- Published Date: May 2006 More
- Assessing China's Power
- by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.
- Publisher: Boston Globe
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- When China's President Hu Jintao visits Washington this week, George W. Bush will confront one of the key challenges of his presidency—how to respond to China's increasing economic and military...
- Published Date: April 2006 More
- Globalizing Good Government
- by Fisher, Richard W.; Cox, W. Michael
- Publisher: New York Times
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- The protests in France over job security for young workers have exposed the fault lines between globalization and public policy. On the one hand, the French government has recognized that the...
- Published Date: April 2006 More
- Identity and Violence
- by Ashbrook, Tom; Sen, Amartya
- Publisher: WBUR, On Point with Tom Ashbrook
- Publication Type: Interview
- Nobel prize-wining economist Amartya Sen has long since looked beyond the numbers of development and growth and into the affairs of the human heart. What he sees there these days he finds deeply...
- Published Date: April 2006 More
- A Poverty of the Mind
- by Patterson, Orlando
- Publisher: New York Times
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- Cambridge, Mass.
Several recent studies have garnered wide attention for reconfirming the tragic disconnection of millions of black youths from the American mainstream. But they also highlighted...
- Published Date: March 2006 More
- Wanted: A Leader for Harvard
- by Putnam, Robert D.
- Publisher: Boston Globe
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- Larry Summers's experience says much about what Harvard—and any great university—should look for in a president.
Summers was not forced out by a radical segment of the faculty of arts and...
- Published Date: March 2006 More
- When Terrorists Go Mainstream
- by Toft, Monica Duffy
- Publisher: Boston Globe
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- PERHAPS THE biggest surprise about this week's election results, in which the terrorist group Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament, is that it was a surprise to us at all....
- Published Date: January 2006 More
- A Legacy of Mixed Messages
- by Domínguez, Jorge I.
- Publisher: Boston Globe
- Publication Type: Book Review
- The rise of center-left governments in Latin America has been a dimension of the region's democratization that, notwithstanding setbacks, has been under way for the past quarter century. Center-left...
- Published Date: January 2006 More
