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• Aqil Shah was interviewed on the Council on Foreign Relations podcast, Asia Unbound, regarding The Army and Democracy: Military Politics in Pakistan.
• Brandon Garrett, author of the forthcoming Too Big to Jail, weighed in at Frontline and Corporate Crime Reporter about the conviction of BNP Paribas, France’s biggest bank, on corruption charges.
• Jill Elaine Hasday, author of Family Law Reimagined, argued at Slate that when parents cannot keep their children, the law must do more to keep siblings together.
• Thomas Piketty talked with The Economist about Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

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July 7: The Saints' Lives and the Mission of the Francises

The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, which Adam Kirsch has called “the best introduction the general reader has ever had to the ‘mother’ of Western Christian civilization,” presents both classics of the medieval canon and lesser-known works in their original languages alongside new English translations. Launched in 2010 and numbering now three dozen volumes, the series spans genres as diverse as biography, travelogues, scientific treatises, and epic and lyric poetry. As rising Harvard junior Jude Russo explains below, this spring’s additions to the series include a volume that’s about as timely as a medieval publication could be. “Nam quid respectu Francisci Iulius aut quid ge…