Mar
17
Creeping Authoritarianism or Illiberal Reform An Analysis of Anne Applebaum’s “Twilight of Democracy”
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(This post offers the a second student analysis of Twilight of Democracy. Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) Historian Anne Applebaum takes her readers to a society on the brink in her latest work Twilight of Democracy. Society, according to Applebaum, is on the brink of becoming more authoritarian and straying from […]
Feb
22
The Value in Thinking Again
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(This post is the next in the segment Readings in Reconciliation and focuses on Adam Grant’s Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know. Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field. Note: this segment ran in the fall, but we have added some additional posts as a result of student […]
Feb
8
Warning Signs: Poland’s Descent into Authoritarianism
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(This post offers the a second student analysis of Twilight of Democracy. Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) In a time where our government seeks to promote democracy across the world, Twilight of Democracy is a warning not to forget about protecting domestic democracy. In this book, author Anne Applebaum informs readers […]
Dec
7
The World’s Most Dangerous Crisis – Up Close and Personal (From the Field, Readings in Reconciliation — Twilight of Democracy)
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(This post offers the first student analysis of Twilight of Democracy. Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) While reading through Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, you hear of all the elbow-rubbing Applebaum has done with the political elite and academics – some of whom she […]
Dec
7
Reading in Reconciliation from Politics and International Relations Capstone – Twilight of Democracy
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(This post is the first of a set on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy. Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) Our capstone students engaged this latest text, focused on the trajectory of democracy around the world and at home, with rich and nuanced thought, conversation and writing. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Anne […]
Nov
22
Shaping “We” for the 21st Century (From the Field, Readings in Reconciliation – The Upswing)
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(This post is the next in Readings in Reconciliation. Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) Is there such a thing as “we” in America, and has this idea shifted with time? Putnam attempts to answer this by charting out the curve “we” has taken over the course of the last […]
Nov
15
“I” v. “We”: Poor History and Poor Solutions (From the Field, Readings in Reconciliation – The Upswing)
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(This post is the next in Readings in Reconciliation. Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) Robert Putnam, of the Bowling Alone fame brings his wisdom once again to the current discussion on the polarized political climate that the United States finds itself. Putnam looks to analyze political, economic, social, and […]
Nov
15
Readings in Reconciliation from Politics and International Relations Capstone – The Upswing (From the Field)
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(This post is the first of a set on Robert Putnam’s The Upswing. Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) Conversation in our capstone course this semester has been full thus far! Students have asked really compelling questions and exemplified the kinds of interactions that would serve our public sphere – […]
Nov
1
A Nuanced Approach to Dismantling Biases and Misconceptions in Adam Grant’s Think Again (From the Field, Readings in Reconciliation – Think Again)
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(This post is the next in the segment Readings in Reconciliation and focuses on Adam Grant’s Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know. Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) In today’s highly polarized society, it has become increasingly common to critique the “other” and simply dismiss their views as […]
Oct
25
The Importance and Pitfalls of Reevaluation (From the Field, Readings in Reconciliation-Think Again)
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(This post is the next in the segment Readings in Reconciliation and focuses on Adam Grant’s Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know. Click to learn more about the segment and the series, From the Field.) The main point of Grant’s book, unsurprisingly, is getting us to ‘think again’. “The goal is not to be wrong […]