On Thursday, April 29, Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American
and Latino Culture Ilan Stavans discussed ideological polarization in the
American media with journalist Martin Baron in the final event of the college’s
virtual “Politics and Poetry” series
[https://www.amherst.edu/news/campus_community_events/virtual/politics-and-poetry]
. The series was made possible by the Seminars on Opposing Views Fund, which was
established by the Class of 1970.
Baron has been the executive e
