Episode 16: “Discourse and the Israel/Palestine Conflict”, with Noah Colbert
Listen and subscribe to our podcast: Via Spotify | Via Apple Podcasts NUPRspectives new host Bryan Grady sits down with rising sophomore and NUPR digital director Noah Colbert, in order to discuss the past and present of the Israel/Palestine conflict, as well as the role of rhetoric about the conflict in countries like the USA and UK. Make […]
Bust or Bust: The Future of Boston’s Christopher Columbus Statue
Who deserves to be a statue? Recently, activists around the world have answered this question with “not a murderer”—a statue of slave owner Edward Colston was thrown into a river in Bristol, UK; a confederate statue was hung in Raleigh, North Carolina; and Boston’s very own Christopher Columbus statue was beheaded. Columbus’s statue was until […]
The Fight for Freedom is Over. Hong Kong is Finished.
A Hong Kong Police Department riot officer brandishes his weapon at protesters in a metro car. On June 4, thousands of Hongkongers defied a ban on large gatherings to commemorate the thirty-first anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s infamous violent crackdown on protesting students and workers. The anniversary comes one […]
A Notorious Traffic: A History
It is a sad but inescapable truth about the history of international law—and internationalism more broadly—that much of it is fraught with racism, imperialism, and moral crusading. The counter-human trafficking regime is no exception. The earliest legislative action against human trafficking on an international level was conceived of as the International Agreement for the suppression […]