On Thursday, March 11, the college hosted its first event in a new virtual
series titled “Politics and Poetry.” The six-part edition
[https://www.amherst.edu/news/campus_community_events/virtual/politics-and-poetry]
of the Point/Counterpoint series was a conversation between Lewis-Sebring
Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture Ilan Stavans and
David Brooks, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, political commentator
for the PBS NewsHour and former professor at Yale U