What I Saw at the Revolution
What I Saw at the Revolution is a political memoir for those who don’t usually read political memoirs, a testimony to the power of language in politics. Noonan was a speechwriter for President Reagan, in both of his terms. Join us for a conversation on the power of language in politics and for a look at how our Federal government works.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is ostensibly a letter to his son about growing up a black male in America. This prize winning correspondent of The Atlantic tackles the very big questions of our time.
The New Jim Crow
The US has used the War on drugs to create a racial caste system: a successor to the Jim Crow days we thought we left behind. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is one of the most important American books in the last decade. Alexander systematically explores the policy changes from the days of Nixon through the present – exploring how each decision has created and allowed a system which criminalizes blackness, brownness, otherness in way that both creates new racial biases and confirms them by incarcerating millions of young black and brown men (and to a lesser extent, black and brown women).
A Neighborhood That Never Changes
In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we’re looking at a book on gentrification called A Neighborhood That Never Changes, by Japonica Brown-Saracino.
Fundamental books for city-making
by Aubrey L. Hicks A recent convergence of articles about reading and public policy have got us thinking, and we hope they’ll get you thinking too. In an Op-Ed in The New York Times Charles Blow said of reading that: “[R]eading texts is not the same as reading a text. There Read more…
To-Read for Every Student Planning a Career in the Public Service
by Martin Krieger C. Ansell, Pragmatist Democracy: Evolutionary Learning as Public Philosophy A. Bertelli and L. Lynn, Madison’s Managers R. Caro, The Passage of Power, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol IV I. Hacking, Representing and Intervening S. Tang’s new book on institutional design, Ten Principles for a Rule-Ordered Society Conflict and Read more…