Silas Grant (2019-2020)

Silas Grant completed a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago in 2021. Silas’s dissertation and current book project, Patchwork: Land, Law, and Extraction in the Greater Chaco, is an ethnography of controversial oil and gas extraction in northwestern New...

Marking the Death of Vartan Gregorian

Vartan Gregorian who died on April 14th was the longtime head of the Carnegie Corporation and former President of Brown University, Provost at the University of Pennsylvania., and a distinguished historian.   His greatest achievement was saving and rebuilding the New...

In solidarity: Black Lives Matter

One of our missions has been to support research that will help in the struggle for racial justice and to challenge existing structure of inequality. But we recognize in this moment that we must do more in the effort to deconstruct white supremacy. We want to make the...

Petition to Cancel Student Debt

A number of friends of the Center have drafted a petition to President Biden requesting the cancellation of student debt. They make the case that this would be a progressive step because the cancellation would disproportionately benefit college graduates in lower...

CES Fellow Takes on Silicon Valley

Nantina Vgontzas, a 2018-2019 CES fellow, is the co-author of an important article posted on The Nation website. In the early 1940’s, singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, the left-wing bard, famously placed a sign on his guitar saying, “This machine kills fascists.”...

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