From left: Harvard president Claudine Gay; Penn's Liz Magill; Pamela Nadell, a professor of history and Jewishstudies at American University; and Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT. Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images....
Peter is the author of eight books of poems including Ozone Journal, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and the recently published No Sign (2022). His memoir Black Dog of Fate won the PEN/Albrand Award; and The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response was a New York Times Best Seller. He is Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English at Colgate University.
January 6: The Film—It Needs To Go Viral
The January 6 Select Congressional Committee released its final report on December 22, 2022. The report is the culmination of the ten hearings the nation has witnessed on television from June through December at intervals. The hearings have had a dramatic impact on...
The College Admissions Scandal, White Cheating, and The Trump Example
I teach at a very good liberal arts college in the Northeast, and perhaps it’s one reason why I’ve been having conversations in the past few years with people I know and don’t know, in passing or in close conversation, in which I hear anger, disappointment, or...
President Obama’s Literary Farewell
The Situation Room (ink and acrylic on paper 36”x 36”)Mary Behrens When I first picked up President Obama’s memoir, Dreams From My Father, in 2008 when the President was on the campaign trail, I was prepared to find a memoir like those of many public...