From Aga Khan University to Boston University, I spoke to 99 big thinkers about the ‘world after coronavirus’. Here is what I discovered
4 minute read. By Adil Najam, Dean of The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Reframing America’s role in the World: The Question of Isolationism
13 minute read. By Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Andrew Bacevich – Greatest Generation? Hardly: We’re passing on a badly damaged planet and a divided nation (Essay)
8 min read Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor Emeritus at Boston University and President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, offers thoughtful reflection 75 years after Nazi Germany's surrender.
Coronavirus: Social Distancing is the best tool we have to fight it
3 min read "Social distancing is a tool public health officials recommend to slow the spread of a disease that is being passed from person to person. Simply put, it means that people," writes Thomas Perls, Geriatrician and Professor of Medicine at Boston University
Andrew Bacevich: How “Historic” Are We? (Essay)
7 minute read "Yet in this dismal situation, flickering bits of truth occasionally do appear in moments when pseudo-events inadvertently expose realities they are meant to conceal," writes Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (Feb. 26th, 2020)
Andrew Bacevich – The last three decades of American foreign policy have been a colossal failure (Essay)
"Thirty years later, perhaps it’s time to assess just how well the United States has fulfilled the expectations President Bush articulated in 1990. Personally, I would rate the results somewhere between deeply disappointing and flat-out abysmal," writes Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (Jan. 8th, 2020)
The Real Cover-Up: Putting Donald Trump’s Impeachment in Context (Essay)
"That leaves outcome number four, easily the most probable: while the House will impeach, the Senate will decline to convict. Trump will therefore stay right where he is, with the matter of his fitness for office effectively deferred to the November 2020 elections. Except as a source of sadomasochistic diversion, the entire agonizing experience will, therefore, prove to be a colossal waste of time and blather," writes Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston University, President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (Oct. 9th, 2019)