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Carrie Lambert-Beatty
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Exploring “parafiction” in contemporary art and our post-truth culture—with Carrie Lambert-Beatty, professor of the history of art and architecture and of art, film, and visual studies.
11.30.20
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Winter's Tale, Act IV, sc. 4
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Queen: There is a Willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clamoring to hang, an envious sliver broke.
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Carrie Lambert-Beatty
Exploring “parafiction” in contemporary art and our post-truth culture—with Carrie Lambert-Beatty, professor of the history of art and architecture and of art, film, and visual studies.
Francesca Dominici
Discussing the link between air pollution and effects of COVID-19, and the importance of data for rapid public-health responses —with Francesca Dominici, professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Rebecca Henderson
How to reform capitalism to confront climate change and extreme inequality, with economist and McArthur University Professor Rebecca Henderson
Jeannie Suk Gersen
Photograph by Nina Subin
Harvard Law School professor Jeannie Suk Gersen breaks down the use of race in college admissions and the future of affirmative action at the Supreme Court.
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Photograph by Laura Rose
The case for reinventing American democracy through an enlarged House of Representatives, ranked-choice voting, and more
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