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Introducing The Chalkboard Politics Podcast
The Institute was founded as The Institute of War and Peace Studies (IWPS) in 1951, under the sponsorship of Dwight D. Eisenhower, during his tenure as president of Columbia University, in an effort to promote an understanding of “the disastrous consequences of war upon man’s spiritual, intellectual, and material progress.”
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Chalkboard Politics is a student-produced and student-hosted podcast that aims to connect concepts that students encounter in the classroom with real-world political events and to show how these concepts, which can sometimes feel abstract or inaccessible, help us make sense of the world. Building on the Saltzman Student Scholars program at the Saltzman Institute, the […]
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