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SUMMARY:Republican Resistance in the Age of Trump
DESCRIPTION:Stuart Stevens\, Republican political consultant\nStuart Stevens believes Republicans are in a “GOP apocalypse\,” and he’s mobilizing conservatives to stop it. \nStevens is a Republican political consultant who’s worked on presidential campaigns for Bob Dole and George W. Bush\, served as the lead strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign\, and helped elect more governors and US Senators than any other GOP consultant working today. He’s also an outspoken critic of Donald Trump\, starting from the earliest days of Trump’s candidacy. Stevens joins MIT Communications Forum director Seth Mnookin to discuss the future of the GOP\, how Donald Trump has influenced the American political system\, and predictions for the 2018 midterm and the 2020 presidential elections. \nSpeakers: \nStuart Stevens is a political consultant\, author\, and founding partner of the consultancy firm Strategic\, Partners & Media. Stevens has served as a strategist and media consultant to President George W. Bush\, Governor Tom Ridge\, and senators Chuck Grassley\, John McCain\, Thad Cochran\, Roger Wicker\, Dick Lugar\, and many others. Stevens was the lead strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. \nJennifer Nassour is the founder of Conservative Women for a Better Future\, a non-profit organization dedicated to electing more conservative women in the Northeast\, and former chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party. During her tenure\, Republicans won the U.S. Senate seat held by Scott Brown and doubled their ranks in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. \nDr. Daniel Barkhuff is president of Veterans for Responsible Leadership\, a nonpartisan political action committee that supports veterans who have demonstrated integrity and rational thought as they run for positions in local\, state and federal elections. Barkhuff served for 7 years as a member of Naval Special Warfare and is currently a faculty member and emergency medicine doctor at the University of Vermont. \nModerator: Seth Mnookin is the director of the MIT Communications Forum and director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book\, The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy\,won the “Science in Society” award from the National Association of Science Writers.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/republican-resistance-age-trump/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bunk and the History of Hoaxes with Kevin Young
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Young\, poetry editor for The New Yorker and director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library\nThe author of 11 books and poetry collections\, poetry editor for The New Yorker and director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, Young has spent the past six years tracing the history of news-worthy fraudulence all the way back to the 18th century. Young’s latest book Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes\, Humbug\, Plagiarists\, Phonies\, Post-Facts\, and Fake News chronicles the racially prejudiced path that brought fake news to where it is to today. Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award\, Bunk dives into hoaxes big and small that permeate American history and the cultural attitudes that drive them. Young joins Carole Bell\, an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University whose research explores the connections between media and politics\, for a broad-ranging discussion on the current state and political consequences of fake news. A book signing will follow. \nSpeakers: \nKevin Young is poetry editor for The New Yorker\, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library\, and the author of 11 books and poetry collections including The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness\, which was a New York Times Notable Book\, and Jelly Roll: A Blues\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. \nCarole Bell is an assistant professor of Communication Studies and affiliated faculty in Political Science at Northeastern University. Bell’s teaching and research focuses on the intersections of media\, politics\, public opinion and public policy\, with a particular focus on issues of social identity. Her first book\, The Politics of Interracial Romance in American Film\, is forthcoming from Routledge. \nThis event is sponsored by Radius at MIT. All Communications Forum events are free and open to the general public.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/fake-news-history-hoaxes-kevin-young/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States
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