Ishaan Jajodia ('20), Conservatism and Culture

Monday July 7 at 5 pm in Rocky 1.

Ishaan Jajodia (’20) (Yale Political Science Ph.D), focuses on the conservative fetish with high culture and the left’s obsession with the subaltern. The victim of this combination, he argues, is cosmopolitanism, and his talk explores a conservative cosmopolitanism that rises from the ashes of the Union Leagues of America, founded during the Civil War to aid the Union effort in its moment of weakness.

Douglas Irwin (Economics), "Trump's Tariff Obsession: Good or Bad for America?"

Doug Irwin, one of the world’s leading trade-history economists, discussed the current debate over tariffs triggered by President Donald Trump’s aggressive second-term trade policy. May 19 at 5 pm in Filene Auditorium