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• Brooke Harrington, author of Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent, spoke with The Nation about the role wealth management professionals play in the perpetuation of global inequality and the undermining of democracy.
• After Piketty co-editors Heather Boushey, Brad DeLong, and Marshall Steinbaum discussed Thomas Piketty’s arguments and impact in a post for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth’s “Equitable Growth in Conversation” series.
• The Classical Debt author Johanna Hanink discussed the notion of cultural indebtedness and its political character with The Greek News Agenda’s Rethinking Greece.
• McKenzie Wark, author of Gamer Theory and A Hacker Manifesto, spoke with 3:AM Magazine about the breadth of his writings on media theory, critical theory, new media, and the Situationist International.

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June 9: Russia’s Story of War

Bully. Bear. Insatiable aggressor. To many the words are inseparable from Russia itself. Wherever one looks support can be found for such epithets. The annexation of Crimea and military intervention in eastern Ukraine; the earlier flash war with Georgia and flattening of Chechen dreams for independence; the inward turn to authoritarianism and open assault on civil liberties—all push Russia onto the stage of international villainy. The images, to be sure, enjoy little favor at home. There the titles one hears come as if from a parallel world where all is turned on its head. Allusions to Russia the defender, the protector, and even the savior or liberator permeate state media, academic tomes…