Politics on the Edge
IN THE “THE MITCHELL CENTER PRESENTS: POLITICS ON THE EDGE” SERIES, the Mitchell Center joins forces with the Philomathean Society, an intellectual society at Penn in operation since 1813, to invite outside speakers to discuss contemporary political issues in a convivial yet serious atmosphere. We will invite leading figures from diverse fields—journalism, political advocacy, academia, and art—to share perspectives that are fresh and novel, whether because of the topics they address, the provocative nature of their arguments, or their simple excellence. As with all Mitchell Center programs, these events are open to the public.
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Past Events
America's Golden Age of Hijacking (Brendan Koerner)
College Hall, 4th Floor (Philomathean Society)
College Hall, 4th Floor (Philomathean Society) IN AN AMERICA TORN APART BY the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. BRENDAN KOERNER describes how, over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned…
What Happened to Bernie Sanders (Jared Beck)
College Hall, 4th Floor (Philomathean Society)
REDACTED. BLACKED OUT. COVERED UP. The lead attorney of the fraud case against the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Jared Beck, comes to Penn's campus to tell the community stories of an ongoing struggle to garner public legitimacy and cause in what feels to be a stacked case…
