Anne Applebaum is a foreign affairs columnist for The Washington Post and Slate and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. She is also one of three finalists for the Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. She recently spoke to the McGill Reporter about her work, literary prizes and how understanding history gives us added insight into the world today.
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On Thursday, Nov. 29 (6 p.m), Peter Warren Singer, Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, will deliver the 2012 Media@McGill Beaverbrook Annual Lecture entitled, “Wired for War: Everything You Wanted to Know about Robots and War but Were Afraid to Ask,” in Room 100 of the Faculty of Law's Moot Court (3660 Peel St.). He recently answered Four Burning Questions from the...
“So much happens by chance,” says Dr. Charles Scriver. It’s an odd declaration to hear from a man famous for putting in 15 hour days, seven days a week, for 40-something years — and, in doing so, helped shape the face of modern genetics. But there it is: Chance. The trick is being ready for it.
McGill’s first black law grad and Quebec’s first black lawyer In 1956, Frederick Phillips became the first black person to graduate from McGill’s Faculty of Law and, once he passed the bar, the first black lawyer in Quebec. On the occasion of a recent conference of the Black Law Students’…
A semester in Africa offers students the chance to do hands-on research and critically engage with real-world challenges. By Mark Reynolds At the edge of a watery pit, university undergrads watch a Kenyan entrepreneur dig for clay. The clay will be used to make bricks, but bricks aren't the only…
Nicholas Kasirer reflects on his tenure as Dean of Law By Pascal Zamprelli “The biggest disappointment that I have had so far in my wonderful job,” admitted McGill Provost Anthony Masi when addressing the crowd gathered for Convocation Dinner, “is not being able to convince Professor Nicholas Kasirer to serve…