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This study group is for long time fans of The New Yorker as well as newcomers. At each session we will examine the contents of the current issue and t ...  View More

Immigrants are people, and that throws an inconvenient truth into the economic assessment of immigration. Where they emigrate from, the culture they b ...  View More

Falling ill with polio was one of the great fears in the first half of the twentieth century. Tens of thousands were affected. Some recovered, unharme ...  View More

The Economist weekly magazine is widely acclaimed for its thoughtful and stimulating analyses of world news, politics, and business. It also has secti ...  View More

We are living in a rapidly changing and perilous world. International and U.S. policy concerns are also so interlaced and changing that they need to b ...  View More

“There is a growing feeling among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies that the discipline of economics is no longer fit for ...  View More

“There is a growing feeling among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies that the discipline of economics is no longer fit for ...  View More

The text for this 7-week study group will be Friends Disappear: The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston by Mary Barr (University of Chicago Press, ...  View More