Discussion to Explore American Politics from Both Sides of the Atlantic

Time: 5 p.m.

Date: Monday, Nov. 5

Place: The lounge in Grinnell College’s Burling Library, 1111 Sixth Ave.

Providing the American view will be David Shribman, executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a resident of Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, where 11 people were shot and killed Oct. 27 during worship services at a synagogue three blocks from Shribman’s home. He wrote an opinion piece about the tragedy, “Anti-Semitism Comes to a City of Tolerance,” which was published by The New York Times. Before joining the Post-Gazette, Shribman covered politics for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He received a 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Beat Reporting for his coverage of Washington, D.C., and the national scene.

Presenting the view from the United Kingdom will be historian Lawrence Goldman, fellow of the Royal Historical Society and former editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Biography, a compendium of the most significant figures throughout British history. Goldman has written books on Victorian social science, the history of workers’ education in Britain and the life of political thinker and historian R.H. Tawney, among other topics. He is a distinguished research fellow this fall at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri.

Sponsors

The Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations and Human Rights

The Chrystal Fund, co-sponsor