Faculty News
Bard’s Pavlina R. Tcherneva: Look to Congress, Not the Fed, for Help on the Coronavirus
As the coronavirus barrels toward the U.S., all eyes are on the Federal Reserve, which on March 3 delivered a 50-basis-point interest-rate cut. But interest rates are a blunt tool for tackling the many challenges we’re facing, says Bard economist Pavlina R. Tcherneva. "What we need now is aggressive public-health-services mobilization and an economic stabilization package. And that’s the job of Congress, not the Fed.” More >
Opinion: Bard Diplomat in Residence Frederic C. Hof on the West’s “Pseudo Diplomacy” in Syria
“If anything at all has been learned from nine years of geopolitical and humanitarian catastrophe in Syria it is this: In dealing with adversaries devoid of human values and basking in impunity, diplomacy unbacked by the credible threat of military force is not really diplomacy; rather it is a useless exercise in wordsmithing, one shuttling between naivete and cynicism. It is pseudo diplomacy,” writes Ambassador Hof. More >
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- Hubris and Delusion: Daniel Mendelsohn on the End of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor Trilogy
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