Hamilton in the News

“President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership weakens America’s strategic-economic position in East Asia.” So begins “The Death of TPP: The Best Thing That Ever Happened to China,” an opinion piece written by senior Oliver Magnusson and this past fall’s Linowitz Professor of International Affairs E. Anthony Wayne.

Bill Moyers, well known journalist, documentarian and former White House press secretary, interviewed Professor of Government Philip Klinkner and historians from Princeton, Yale and Harvard’s Kennedy School for a program titled "Lest We Forget - Bill Moyers and four historians on the big lie behind the rise of Trump" for the Moyers & Company website.

In a Guardian article titled "Paintings reveal early signs of cognitive decline, claims study," Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown firmly disagreed with the researcher’s findings. In her 2006 paper published by the journal Nature, Brown debunked a previous theory that fractal analysis could be used to authenticate Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings.

The Business of Giving, a unique radio program that focuses on the world’s social problems and their possible philanthropic solutions, will air a pre-recorded interview with host Denver Frederick and President David Wippman and trustee Aron Ain this Sunday, Jan. 8, at 6 p.m.

The 2016 presidential election, the Broadway musical Hamilton, financial aid, career placement and diversity issues: these were topics for which the media sought interviews and quotes from Hamilton experts.

HowStuffWorks, a site that attracts 30 million visitors monthly, published an essay titled Was 2016 a Replay of 1968? in which Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, explained the similarities and differences between the two tumultuous years.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government David Rivera and Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera published an oped on the Electoral College’s upcoming vote for president on Dec. 15 on the online site, Medium.

Immediately following the Federal Reserve’s Dec. 14 announcement of its first rate hike since 2006, Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, discussed the decision on National Public Radio’s Here & Now program during a live interview.

The Alpinist, a publication and website dedicated to world alpinism and adventure climbing, recently introduced an article with a quote from Professor of History Maurice Isserman’s book, Continental Divide.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Relations, was interviewed by BBC News on what a Trump administration might look like.