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A collection of essays by Chris Bruell
Boston College alumni Eric Buzzetti and Devin Stauffer, who both earned doctorates in political science from BC in 1998, have edited a landmark collection of writings by Christopher Bruell, a highly regarded Boston College professor of political science who died … Continue reading
Strauss and Lessing
Assistant Professor of Political Science Hannes Kerber is editor of Leo Strauss, La dottrina essoterica: Saggi su Lessing, published by Edizioni ETS. The volume (translated to The Exoteric Doctorine: Essays on Lessing) is a collection of posthumous writings that shed new … Continue reading
The book of love
Love: A History (Oxford University Press, 2024), edited by BC Moakley Professor of Political Science Ryan Patrick Hanley, traces the history of thinking about love from antiquity to the 20th century, and includes how various literary, cultural, and political representations … Continue reading
The Battle of Sitka
At the turn of the 19th century, Russia was a rising power in North America, with an empire that extended across the Bering Sea, through the Aleutians and Kodiak Island, and down the Alaskan panhandle. The objective was to corner … Continue reading
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“Diploma divide” in American politics
American society has experienced fundamental changes that have polarized the nation’s political climate and ignited a perpetual culture war, according to co-authors of a new book Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics … Continue reading
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Lessing’s literary and polemical strategies
Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy Hannes Kerber is a co-editor of new collection of essays (in German) titled Praktiken der Provokation. Lessings Schreib- und Streitstrategien (Practices of Provocation: Lessing’s Literary and Polemical Strategies). This volume brings together contributions from a … Continue reading
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The U.S. Constitution
In their new book, Keeping the Republic: A Defense of American Constitutionalism (University Press of Kansas, 2024), BC Professors of Political Science Dennis Hale and Marc Landy examine why the United States Constitution has come under fire throughout its history. … Continue reading
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Political Rhetoric
Political Rhetoric in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2023), edited by Boston College Behrakis Professor in Hellenic Political Studies Robert Bartlett and Associate Professor of Political Science Nasser Behnegar, is an introduction to the art of rhetoric (persuasive speaking). … Continue reading
In the air and on the sea, pollution goes under the radar
International shipping and aviation stand as two major sources of global greenhouse gas emissions not governed by national inventories and the U.N. Paris Climate agreement. Since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, regulating greenhouse gas emissions from these two industries has … Continue reading
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Evolution of school desegregation policy
In The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality (University of Chicago Press, 2023), Boston College political scientist R. Shep Melnick examines the evolution of federal school desegregation policy from 1954—when the Supreme Court delivered the landmark decision of … Continue reading
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Tagged education policy, Political Science department, racism, Supreme Court
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