
Lizzie Lee, "The China Model's Fatal Flaw"
Wednesday Feb. 25 at 6:30 pm. Has China overplayed its hand? Its policy of massive state subsidies for frontier industries such as electric vehicles, solar panels and batteries has been stunningly successful, leading in recent years to a balance of trade surplus in excess of $1 trillion. But there are signs that a global backlash is brewing, raising the question of whether there is a “fatal flaw” in the Communist Party’s geo-strategy. Join China expert Lizzie Lee. Carson L01 on Zoom:
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The Loud Quitters: When Conscience and Career Collide
A forum with five attorneys who resigned in protest.
March 03 at 5 pm in Cook Auditorium, Murdough Center
Registration Required. Sponsored by Tuck, PEP, Rocky, and the Ethics Institute.In spring 2025 the Trump Administration targeted several elite law firms for their prior representation of the President’s political opponents, demanding information and influence over firms’ attorney hiring practices and client representations, in addition to pro bono legal services on matters selected by the Administration.
When several of these firms agreed to settlements, a wave of young attorneys chose to resign in public protest, making national news. Five of these “loud quitters” will join us, some in person and available to meet with students throughout the following 24 hours.

Ben Friedman, "The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth"
Thursday Oct 16 at 5 pm in Rocky 1. Co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy.
Growth is usually thought of as an economic agenda. But Prof. Benjamin Friedman showed how it had far-reaching moral implications as well. The William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy revisits and updates his 2005 classic The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (Knopf) for the robotics, climate change, and AI generation.

Jennifer Lind, "Autocracy 2.0: China's Smart Despotism
In conversation with Andy Browne (Semafor), January 14 at 8 pm in Carson L02
Has China invented a new kind of tyranny? Jennifer Lind (Government) thinks so. In her provocative new book Autocracy 2.0, Lind argues that the Communist Party of China has threaded the needle between tight political and social control with inclusive-enough economic policy to become a truly modern superpower that not only challenges the Western-led international order, but offers a model for autocracies elsewhere to follow. Is she right? Come join the discussion! Co-sponsored by the Dickey Center.

Frank Dikotter, "Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity"
Tuesday Jan. 27 at 7:30 pm. The Chinese Communist Party is without question the most powerful political party in the world today. How did it come to power? In his forthcoming book, the leading historian of modern China provides an answer. Frank Dikotter is the author of a dozen books on modern China, including the award-winning Mao’s Red Famine among others. Red Dawn Over China has been described as “the most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years.” Carson L01 by Zoom:
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