The 'politics of fear,' for elderly Jews:
One thing about older students is that they pay attention.
Bio: Avi Zenilman is a freelance writer and editor. He previously worked as a campaign reporter for Politico and as the online news editor of The New Yorker. He has also written for Slate, Washington Monthly, VanityFair.com, and the Washington Post's Plum Line blog.
Alan Weisman loves his students, and they love him. Last night, he was wearing baggy light blue jeans, a dark polo shirt and buttoned-up blazer. He had gelled his graying hair into a part. It goes well with his bushy mustache. "They're hip, they're smart," he said, standing in front of the projection screen after delivering a lecture on the "Politics of Fear." It was the third talk in a three-part series, and the audience loved how he compared the terrorist threat to the paranoia of the early Cold War. They remember the latter quite well. More
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on August 4th, 2010 2:50pmThere are three men and one woman running against Charlie Rangel, the legendary Harlem Congressman and dean of the New York delegation, in the September 15 Democratic primary. The four of them combined have so far raised less than half the $800,000 Rangel raked in this year and none of them has any support from the political establishment.
This ought to be a great opportunity for these aspirants to the historic Harlem Congressional seat. Rangel has been reeling for a while now from a succession of ethics controversies, and last week, he was formally charged by the House ethics committee with, among other violations, illegally using rent-stabilized apartments for campaign work and failing to disclose rental income from a yacht club in the Dominican Republic. More
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on July 26th, 2010 8:24amSaujani recognizes that her ethnicity could be a competitive advantage, and is pursuing an explicit strategy of rallying South Asians to her cause. The result, even in the context of a loss, could tell us quite a bit about the local political strength of that group. More
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on July 20th, 2010 9:33amHasnain said he couldn’t get a comprehensive picture of the problem because the Pakistanis and Chinese and Indians don’t want to give each other detailed looks at what’s going on at their border. Schell detailed how the Yangtze river in China doesn’t even reach the ocean most of the time, and how getting rid of the smog that plagues Indian and Chinese cities might release even more warmth into the atmosphere. Vaitheeswaran and Breashears wondered what would happen to farmers once they lost their rivers. More
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on July 15th, 2010 1:08pmThe students, who signed up for Columia B school to be fast-tracked into high-paying positions on Wall Street, clearly haven't regarded the crisis as something that actually changes all that much for them. Among business school attendees, President Obama's call for the flower of America's youth to choose engineering instead of finance, and warnings by experts that the garish, pre-meltdown levels of executive compensation couldn't last, have been met with a robust skepticism, or at least an unwillingness to let any of it affect their pursuit of a Wall Street salary. More
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on June 28th, 2010 9:05am
