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The Making of the Activist Academy

While majoring in computer science at Columbia University, I took part in a poetry workshop. We were assigned to write a Petrarchan sonnet, one of the most rigid of. The post The Making of the Activist Academy appeared first on First Things

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The New Food Powers: How China and Russia Are Filling America’s Retreat

In January 2025, when the Trump administration froze nearly all foreign aid, more than 1,000 emergency communal kitchens in Sudan shut down within weeks. Half a million displaced people lost access to clean water. Famine conditions that had been held at bay collapsed into crisis. Within months, Russian grain ships arrived in African ports and Chinese agricultural delegations expanded across the continent. Decisions made in Washington marked the end of seven decades of American dominance in hu...

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Duke Summer Institute on the History of Economics

The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University will be hosting another Summer Institute on the History of Economics from June 2-11, 2026. The program is designed for students in graduate programs in economics, though students in graduate school in other fields as well as recently minted PhDs will also be considered. […] The post Duke Summer Institute on the History of Economics appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesSeb KrierSectoral shifts in supply, wartim...

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