Liberal arts professors like to teach about power. Sociology professors explain how power is constructed, politics professors emphasize how power is distributed and Spanish professors talk about, well, poder.
Despite the constant focus on theoretical conceptions of power, no one has ever taught me how to get it.
I am hoping that this will change with the coming symposium [...]
Obama is not the only political figure who can use “Yes We Can.” I’m currently sitting in the UN General Assembly at the Children and Youth Chair, listening to the Chair of the Commission on Sustainable Development Gerda Verburg from the Netherlands, speak about how the international community CAN overcome the combined crises of [...]
This was written by Imran Battla and I during the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in New York for the SustainUS Blog
We just finished meeting with the head of the CSD-17 State Department Delegation John Matuszak as part of the U.S. Government Listening Session. One of the questions we asked him pertained to the role [...]
May 7th
Seattle Airport
This morning I woke up at 5:30 am to get on a plane to New York. I sat next to one of those inquisitive elderly types that love to ask young people questions about their life. Somehow I found myself relating my entire life story. At the end of the flight [...]
Last Tuesday, Whitman’s Campus Climate Challenge met with Walla Walla’s very Republican Congresswoman Cathy McMorris to discuss climate change. We had met with her before in Washington D.C. where she had made it clear that she knows very little about the issue. She subtly avoided admitting that climate change is happening and when I asked [...]
As part of a scholarship I am applying for, I recently wrote a letter to Congressman David Obey, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations urging him to put limitations on the World Bank’s proposed Clean Technology Fund (CTF) that would eliminate funding for clean coal. The purpose of the fund is to help developing countries [...]
Yesterday Professor Mark Denbeaux from Senton Hall Law School visited my International Politics class to talk to us about Guantanamo. One of the first things he told us is that the debate over what constitutes torture has been obscuring the true issues at GITMO. As he said
Torture is irrelevant
What he was really concerned about is that none of [...]
