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April 22, 2021

RECAP: “Re-thinking the Separation of Powers,” Colloquium w/ McGill University Tomlinson Prof. Jacob Levy

In contextualizing the central theme of his April 16 talk within the history of political thought, McGill University Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory Jacob Levy summoned a figure who has become something of a familiar specter in the Kinder Institute’s 2020-21 Friday Colloquium Series: Montesquieu. Specifically, he held out Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws as […]

March 30, 2021

RECAP: “The Recurring Crises of American Democracy,” Book Talk w/ Profs. Suzanne Mettler (Cornell) and Robert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins)

After sending their recent co-authored book, Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy, to press about a year ago, Cornell University John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions Suzanne Mettler and Johns Hopkins Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science Robert Lieberman watched as the threats to democracy that they examined escalated, culminating in the January […]

March 26, 2021

RECAP: “Viceregalism: Constitutional Crises, Heads of State, and Their History in Britain and the Postcolonial World,” with University of Edinburgh Senior Lecturer Harshan Kumarasingham

The last of the Kinder Institute’s Spring 2021 trans-Atlantic virtual visitors, University of Edinburgh Senior Lecturer in British Politics Harshan Kumarasingham addressed a predominantly American audience in his March 12 colloquium which explained the viceregal system and its function throughout the postcolonial world. Kumarasingham opened with a line from “God Save Queen” that is often […]

March 26, 2021

RECAP: “Do Leaders Make History, or Is It Beyond Their Control,” with Harvard Prof. Fredrik Logevall

The question of how historians should conceptualize the role individual agency plays in history was at the heart of the Kinder Institute and Novak Leadership Institute’s co-sponsored March 2 lecture, delivered by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Fredrik Logevall. In the past two […]