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How Cal Performances Rolled Out the “Red Carpet”
The Paris Opera Ballet’s latest production made just two stops in the US, opening at Berkeley.
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Singing It Right Out Loud: How Protest Songs Have Propelled Progressive Politics
Name a progressive cause from the 20th century, and odds are it reverberated to the soundtrack of protest music. Singing together “helps unify people and bring people together with a common message,” says Terry Garthwaite, who sang at protests on the UC Berkeley campus during the Free Speech Movement and went on to found the […]
Solving for Doomsday
By Hayden RoysterHarold Camping ’42 thought he had calculated when the world would end. Ten years after his death, he still has plenty to teach us about the dangers and appeal of “doing your own research.”
Q&A: Daniel Ziblatt on Trump and How Democracies Die
Daniel Ziblatt has spent a career studying why democracies develop and how they die. Along with his co-author and fellow UC Berkeley alumnus, Steven Levitsky, he has done so from a perch at Harvard, and his focus has always been different places and times: Ziblatt is an expert on democracy in modern Europe, including the age […]
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