Each year the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and PEN America award the PEN/Hemingway prize for the year's best debut novel by an American author. The award is usually presented at a gala reception at ...the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts; however, in 2022, the award celebration was held online via Zoom due to ongoing concern about COVID-19. The 2022 PEN/Hemingway prize was awarded to Torrey Peters for her book, Detransition, Baby (Penguin Random House). This year we are pleased to present the keynote address of American writer, educator, conservationist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams. Tempest Williams is the author of over twenty books including the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her other books include Finding Beauty in a Broken World; When Women Were Birds; The Hour of Land - A Personal Topography of America's National Parks; and most recently, Erosion - Essays of Undoing. A recipient of a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, and the Robert Kirsch Award, Tempest Williams is writer-inresidence at the Harvard Divinity School. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters and divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Castle Valley, Utah.
Candidate Trump suggested that building a wall would limit immigration from Mexico, eliding sober assessments that, historically, walls have rarely been a good long-term solution, that such a wall ...would make very little difference on immigration, and that over the past few years, there have been more Mexicans leaving the United States than coming to the United States.1 And yet, Trump built a successful presidential campaign by constructing a compelling notion that a wall would be a solution to a nonproblem. DOCUMENTING COMPLEXITY Third, science has a responsibility to bear witness, to provide the documentation to the complexity of population health challenges, even if they fall out of the dominant public din. Returning to the topic with which we started this comment, the issue of immigration from Mexico, Cheney et al. conducted a qualitative study to document premigration experiences of violence and postmigration health status in male-tofemale transgender individuals from Mexico (p. 1646).
The controversies, beliefs, and arguments surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963 are classics in the canon of conspiracy theories. In October and November 2017, a large ...cache of documents was declassified and made available to the public through the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) website. A small community of researchers coalesced soon after on reddit.com. When these users encounter silences, they often react to them with a certain level of suspicion towards NARA, its archivists, or the originating institution. I call this suspicion of mediated information. It is entangled with, and comes about as a result of, the notoriety and contested nature of the JFK assassination and its aftermath, the strength of the impossible archival imaginary and the imagined records associated with the JFK Assassination collection, and the nature of the archival silences in the online JFK Assassination Collection. Archivists, particularly those working with collections of conspiratorial significance (the MK-ULTRA documents, collections having to do with UFOs, etc.), should be aware of these sorts of reasoning patterns and how they affect use of the collection and user attitudes towards the collecting institution. The first section of this paper introduces the JFK Assassination Collection, the second goes through the canon of scholarship on conspiracy theories, outlining the new notion of suspicion of mediated information. In section three, I present my theoretical framework—rooted in the notion of Michel-Rolphe Trouillot’s “archival silences,” and Anne Gilliland and Michelle Caswell’s imagined records and impossible archival imaginaries. Section four outlines method, and section five consists of data and discussion. This paper constitutes preliminary research into the area, and will be built upon in later research.
Studies of racial/ethnic variations in stroke rarely consider the South Asian population, one of the fastest growing sub-groups in the United States. This study compared risk factors for stroke among ...South Asians with those for whites, African-Americans, and Hispanics.
Data on 3290 stroke patients were analyzed to examine risk differences among the four racial/ethnic groups. Data on 3290 patients admitted to a regional stroke center were analyzed to examine risk differences for ischemic stroke (including subtypes of small and large vessel disease) among South Asians, whites, African Americans and Hispanics.
South Asians were younger and had higher rates of diabetes mellitus, blood pressure, and fasting blood glucose levels than other race/ethnicities. Prevalence of diabetic and antiplatelet medication use, as well as the incidence of small-artery occlusion ischemic stroke was also higher among South Asians. South Asians were almost a decade younger and had comparable socioeconomic levels as whites; however, their stroke risk factors were comparable to that of African Americans and Hispanics.
Observed differences in stroke may be explained by dietary and life style choices of South Asian-Americans, risk factors that are potentially modifiable. Future population and epidemiologic studies should consider growing ethnic minority groups in the examination of the nature, outcome, and medical care profiles of stroke.
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In October 1962, the fate of the world hung on the U.S. response to the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. President Kennedy's decision to impose a blockade was based on hours of ...discussions with top advisers (the so-called ExComm), yet decades of scholarship on the crisis have missed the central puzzle: How did the group select one response, the blockade, when au options seemed bad? Recently released audio recordings are used to argue that the key conversational activity was storytelling about an uncertain future. Kennedy's choice of a blockade hinged on the narrative "suppression" of its most dangerous possible consequence, namely the perils of a later attack against operational missiles, something accomplished through omission, self-censorship, ambiguation, uptake failure, and narrative interdiction. The article makes the very first connection between the localized dynamics of conversation and decision making in times of crisis, and offers a novel processual account of one of the most fateful decisions in human history. Adapted from the source document.
The invitation prompted me to reflect on the meaning and significance of my career in teaching college political science students, a career that began at a California community college in 1966, and ...that included forty years on the faculty at California State University, Long Beach (1972-2012). Political science, unlike economics, has no Nobel Prize for its outstanding practitioners. In a world such as ours in the year 2018 – where global markets, global technologies, and globally transmitted ideas have generated interdependencies of mind-boggling complexity, and have fostered uncountable and multifaceted ways to experience the conflicts that come from our differences—it is vitally important that we understand what is at stake, and how things work, so that we might apply our minds and hearts to coming up with ways to deal with our interdependencies and differences in ways that enable us to flourish together in our communities.
Ambassador Grenell flaunted diplomatic protocol by making a series of statements that appeared to undermine the current German government, support right-wing political parties, and criticize the ...“blatant anti-Americanism” in German media.1 Former German ambassador to the United States, Wolfgang Ischinger, retorted via Twitter: “Never tell the host country what to do, if you want to stay out of trouble.” Trump’s presidency has only made these changes more apparent. ...teaching US foreign policy now in Germany demands engaging in difficult discussions about the future of German foreign policy. The discussions include the controversial issue of increasing German defense spending and its willingness to use force; thinking critically about NATO and the European Union’s dependence on the US security umbrella; and reconsidering the leadership role that Germany could and should play in managing international order on topics ranging from the rise of China to nuclear nonproliferation and climate change.
According to Hinton, rather than a starting line, Reagan's policies were more the outgrowth of a process that liberals themselves had developed within a broad bipartisan political consensus, ...involving the merger of social welfare and law enforcement programs and the deep commitment to crime control as a viable response to socioeconomic inequality and institutional racism.(p305) Her opening chapter confronts what is an inconvenient truth for many. ...Hinton's book reminds us that political promises for social progress can be illusory or euphemisms for exerting penal control.
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