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...informally known as the Russian Research Center—in 1948. He officially joined the Harvard faculty in 1951 and taught until 1979. Moore published his most influential work, “Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World?? in 1966. Moore’s earliest scholarship was in the field of Russian politics and power. It was after publishing his 1950 work, “Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power” that Moore joined the Russian Research Center. Even in his earliest days at the Center...
...year’s Canadian sensation Wolf Parade is not merely a new incarnation of the Arcade Fire, as their performance at TT the Bear’s last Thursday showed. For those unacquainted with the Central Square locale, TT’s was designed by Maytag as the world??s most efficient toaster oven. Its sweltering smallness makes it a good concert venue by other measures, though; you can pretty much see the band from anywhere, and it’s hard not to feel the energy of a performance, if only from a strange man grinding...
Wielding economic influence that touches the lives of most of the world??s nearly six-and-a-half billion people, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Fed) is frequently said to be second only to the President of the United States in power. It is no understatement to say that President Bush’s appointment of Alan Greenspan’s successor was one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency. Given the array of possibilities, we are surprisingly satisfied with Bush’s latest appointment of Ben S. Bernanke...
Harvard can only claim one representative—Nobel laureate and Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen—among the world??s top 10 public intellectuals, according to Foreign Policy (FP) and Prospect magazines.This sparse showing comes after Harvard was a dominant presence in a list of the top 100 public intellectuals that the two magazines released in late September. Ten University affiliates were included in that group—the most of any institution worldwide.The final rankings, released last week, were determined by an online vote in which the public was able to rank their top five...
...American empire may actually cause disorder, barbarism, and chaos rather than promote peace and order, one of the world??s leading historians, Eric J. Hobsbawm, explained last night to a packed crowd at Lowell Lecture Hall...