While events are postponed at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York in the heart of Manhattan, videos of recent public programs from its archive will be featured here for your enjoyment. The videos offer illuminating discussions in two main categories: insights into current events and conversations with leading writers and artists. (Courtesy of GC CUNY’s Public Programs archive.)
Economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman present their book, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay, and discuss their conclusions with Lily Batchelder, NYU law professor and former deputy director of President Obama’s National Economic Council, and Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize–winning economist, New York Times columnist, and distinguished professor at The Graduate Center. Janet Gornick, professor of political science and sociology and director of the Stone Center at the GC, moderates.
In “Migrations: Rewriting America,” Suketu Mehta, author of This Land Is Their Land, and Gary Shteyngart, author of Lake Success, talk about how American culture is constantly being remade by immigrants in an entertaining and illuminating discussion with leading scholars Nancy Foner and Philip Kasinitz. Foner is a distinguished professor of sociology at The Graduate Center and Hunter College; Kasinitz is a presidential professor of sociology at The Graduate Center.
