Brown University President Christina Paxson and Provost Richard M. Locke published a letter in the Brown Daily Herald student newspaper Sunday, January 29, as an open letter to the Brown community.
Michael Kennedy in publicseminar.org, "There is an overwhelming sense of momentum. Although the size of the protest was probably less than half of what it was for the #WomensMarch, many showed up on a chilly overcast day for an event only planned the night before."
Watson Institute

New Book by Stephen Kinzer released

A new book,The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire, written by Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer hit bookshelves today.
The New Yorker

Draining the Swamp (written by Ted Widmer)

Ted Widmer, Senior Fellow, in The New Yorker, "There are moments in a hard-fought campaign when a catchy cluster of words can suddenly bubble up from the depths, a shiny new lily pad."
Foreign Affairs

Saving Liberalism (written by Jeff Colgan)

Jeff Colgan, Political Science Professor, in Foreign Affairs, "But when elites fail to give reasonable cues about who the 'other' is, people decide for themselves."
Richard Arenberg, Adjunct Lecturer for the MPA Program, in The New York Times, "If the Senate is to end gridlock, reduce partisanship and begin to address the nation's pressing issues, both parties must renew their respect for Senate rules — and the views of the people."
Michael Kennedy in the American Sociological Association's Policy Trajectories Blog, " I would propose that we think of knowledge not only as a quest to understand structures relatively autonomous from our own understanding, or subjective realities that are the consequences of various life experiences, but focus on those mediating knowledgeabilities that shape how we engage the world with more and less consequence for that world's improvement."
Timothy Edgar, senior fellow at Brown's Watson Institute, comments on the likelihood of American legislators adopting similar surveillance policies as the British Parliament, which has recently passed a controversial law that allows government officials to monitor the web surfing behaviors of Britons for suspected terrorists and cyber criminals.