by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
We will step back from the relentless polls and punditry to reflect on the historic challenges of the upcoming elections. Our politics have gone viral as we have entered a postfactual era in which liberal democracy has been reduced to a partisan punchline. We will...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
NEW! HSP Deep Dive Seminar The purpose of this course is to analyze critically the traditional and often hidebound ways we think about democracies and other political systems. We do so by looking at the challenges confronting the Russian Federation and the United...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Attend In Person OR Online In this course, we will cover the causes of WWI and the role of the United States in the conflict. The course will begin with the primary focus on the war itself. We will explore what was occurring on the U.S. home front. Next, we will spend...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Attend In Person OR Online There is no more critical issue facing the U.S. and its allies in 2022 than the U.S. relationship with China. How this relationship evolves is so vital to America’s wellbeing that it is fair to say it eclipses or goes hand-in-hand with...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Attend In Person OR Online The decade of the 1970s represented a turning point in US politics, which shifted in a rightward direction toward free market economics at the domestic level, combined with more militaristic and interventionist policies overseas. The course...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
We will look back over the half-century since the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam to consider its impact on three groups: the veterans who fought there, the Vietnamese people who fled to the U.S., and those who were radicalized by the war on the left and right. The...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
This course continues the exploration of the United States Supreme Court and its role in deciding fundamental social questions. After an introductory class on the Court, we will focus on landmark cases involving race in education, abortion, Second Amendment, and...
by bartmann | Apr 4, 2024
Moderate Democrats blame progressives for their divisions, and Republicans use them to depict Democrats as socialists. We will look beyond these partisan divisions to consider how our times parallel those of the Progressive Era. One has to go back a century to find...
