March 11, 2017: “Story in the Public Square”
NYT financial journalist Michael Corkery helps make sense of financial stories affecting Americans everywhere.
Fear is Corrosive to Freedom: Picks of the Week
Trump invites victims of illegal immigrant crime as guests for speech to Congress | Washington Times The real goal of Trump’s executive orders: Reduce the number of immigrants in the U.S. | Los Angeles Times Bannon’s reckless pursuit of ethno-nationalist greatness | Washington Post This week’s Picks-of-the-Week are co-authored by two historians, Pell Center Executive Director Jim Ludes and Salve Regina University Provost Scott Zeman. In the November 2016 election, … Read More
March 4, 2017: “Story in the Public Square”
Educational leader Dr. Irvin Scott helps us make sense of the education debate.
An Increasingly Factionalized U.S. Foreign Policy? Picks of the Week
Trump’s Team of Rivals: Riven By Distrust | Foreign Policy Building Situations of Strength: A National Security Strategy for the United States | Brookings Institution McMaster Has the Islamaphobes Worried. Good. | Politico Magazine Washington PR Offensive Fails to Quell Concerns Over Trump | Reuters It has become increasingly evident that there are competing factions within the Trump Administration’s national security team. Long accustomed to pitting his subordinates one against another, the former businessman … Read More
February 25, 2017 – “Story in the Public Square”
This week, hosts Jim Ludes and G. Wayne Miller are joined by a remarkably talented scholar and novelist whose work, whether for academic or popular audiences, traces the role of both narrative and truth in public life. Eric Bennett is the author of Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War, and the novel A Big Enough Lie. His fiction has appeared in A Public … Read More
Trump, Twitter, and the Tide of Cybersecurity: Picks of the Week
Obama officials: There is hope for cybersecurity under Trump | The Christian Science Monitor At RSA, doubts abound over US action on cybersecurity | CSO Online The Rules of the Brave New Cyberworld | Foreign Policy This year’s RSA Conference—one of the largest cybersecurity conferences in the world—broke attendance records with over 40,000 participants, including cyber professionals, academics, and public servants. Although the conference has historically been focused primarily on security tools and … Read More
Salve Regina University’s Class of 2020 Invited to Apply for Leadership Program
Rising sophomores are invited to participate in Nuala Pell Leadership Development Program.
February 18, 2017 – “Story in the Public Square”
This week we’re joined by public diplomacy scholar, practitioner Katherine Brown
A Student’s Perspective on the Women’s March on Washington
The following blog is a personal account of the Women’s March on Washington by Sarah Morehouse. January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, marked “the largest day of protests in U.S. history.” Washington D.C. served as the epicenter of this movement. The Women’s March on Washington began as a grassroots movement, intended to, “send a bold message to our new government on their first day in … Read More
The Trump Administration’s Mismanagement of the U.S. Alliance Portfolio: Picks of the Week
Trump Has Provocative Words for Allies: Congress Does Damage Control | The New York Times Germans Now Find US as Trustworthy as Russia: Poll Shows | The Independent British Lawmakers Tell Their PM: Your Groveling in Front Of Trump is Embarrassing | The Washington Post Can Jim Mattis Fix Asia? | Politico Magazine Mattis the Great, Mattis the Exploited? | War on the Rocks With NSC Shakeup, Bannon Gets a Seat at the Table … Read More