Maya Jasanoff tells how loyalists fleeing the American colonies after the revolution reshaped the British Empire. Landing in Canada, the Caribbean, and Africa, coming from all corners of colonial society, they forced a redefinition of empire and citizenship on the world’s great colossus...
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Tyler Cowen, Brad DeLong, and Greg Clark discuss Clark’s new book, A Farewell to Alms, a brief economic history of the world. In the Andrews Room at UC Davis, 10/18/2007.
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Michael Bérubé discusses what’s happened to cultural studies since the end of the Cold War and how that affects the ability of the Left to respond to the modern world. Historic City Hall, Davis, CA, May 6, 2008
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Tyler Cowen discusses the economics of blogging, its relationship to scholarly disciplines, and its effect on how we talk about matters of academic importance. In the Philosophy Library at UC Davis, 10/18/2007.
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Kieran Healy discusses how we talk about organ donations, how organizations procure organs for transplant, and the potential and past role of markets in both. Andrews Room, UC Davis, 11/29/2007.
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Eric Alterman discusses the history of American liberalism, its onetime place at the pinnacle of political thought, and the possibilities of its return. In Historic City Hall in Davis, 11/8/2007.
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