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Trump 2.0 and Threats to American Democracy

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To observers across the political spectrum, American politics appears increasingly divided. Long-standing divisions of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and rural-urban remain powerful, but a more fundamental split may now be emerging between those who support the existing democratic order and those who do not. In this event, Robert Lieberman will analyse what today’s political cleavages mean for the future of American democracy, and place current conditions in a broader historical and comparative perspective.

The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States

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Professor Sarson will deliver a talk about his new book on the Declaration of Independence followed by comments from Patrick Griffin.

How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning.

CANCELLED Can cultural life thrive under authoritarianism? Evidence from Greece, 1970-1973

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Existing accounts of life under the Colonels’ dictatorship (1967-1974) contend that cultural activity in Greece was all but eradicated due to repression and censorship. However, our research uncovers exactly the opposite, nothing less than a cultural Big Bang. I outline the evidence and address two questions: First, what made this development possible--and, more generally, which conditions facilitate the development of cultural life under authoritarianism? And second, why was this cultural boom erased from collective memory?

Greece’s comeback: How a nation regained credibility

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Alex Patelis discusses insights from his book “Η Μεγάλη Έπιστροφή” (The Great Return), offering an inside account of the policy choices, economic reforms, and credibility signals that opened the road for Greece to return to investment grade, attract foreign capital, and rebuild trust with markets, institutions, and partners after a decade of crisis.