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What is an American Muslim?
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im’s “What is an American Muslim? Embracing Faith and Citizenship” (2014) is an Oxford publication, written in what seems like a world away in terms of US identity politics. The book is largely not what the title reads “What is…” but rather “What should…”. Although the author has produced some interesting works (for […]
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book on the Obama years (We Were Eight Years in Power, 2017) attracted the scorn of Cornell West. Coates’ earlier book, Between the World and Me (2015), is a bestseller. In the form of a letter to his son, the book tells his journey of his own experiences and reflections of being Black […]
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
In 2019, Joseph Stiglitz published “People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent.” The book covers a wide range of topics, largely on contemporary American policy while also highlighting their histories – and is overtly political (Trump comes up frequently, throughout). The author provides an analysis of the challenges as well as potential […]
The Price of Inequality
Joseph Stiglitz is one of the most respected economists of our times and a person who has also held positions of significant influence, including chief economist of the World Bank and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors for the US President (Clinton). In 2012 he authored “The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society […]
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About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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