初回をガイダンスとし、実質的授業は2回目から行う。
読解の対象とする記事については教員が指定のうえ配布する。
25年度に記事は以下のリストから受講者の希望に応じて読み進めた。
(26年度は別の記事を扱う予定)
Politics, Democracy and Capitalism
1.Selling Out Our Public Schools _ Diane Ravitch _ The New York Review of Books
2.How Religious Schools Became a Billion-Dollar Drain on Public Education _ Alec MacGillis The New Yorker
3.‘Never Too Much’ _ How Martin Wolf, the Most Influential Proponent of Globalized Economy Changed His Views, c. 2004-2023 _ The New York Review of Books _ The New York Review of Books
4.The Most Conservative Branch _ Jed S. Rakoff on the Defence of the Rule of Law in the US _ The New York Review of Books
Russia and Germany as Mirrors
5.Sliding towards Autocracy _ a review of recent books _ Katie Stallard The TLS
6.Russian Decency and Independent Journalism _ Zhenya Bruno _ The New York Review of Books
7.To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: A History of Soviet Dissidents by Benjamin Nathans _ TLS
8.Do Russians Really Support the War in Ukraine? _ Keith Gessen The New Yorker
9.Piecing Together the Secrets of the East German Stasi _ The New Yorker
Science, Nature and Humanity
10.Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient _ The New Yorker
11.The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds _ Matthew Hutson The New Yorker
12.How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong _ The New Yorker
13.“You Didn’t Hear This from Me" on Gossip_ Alexandra Schwartz The New Yorker
Technologies and the Business of Innovations
14.Could We Store Our Data in DNA_ Matthew Hutson_ The New Yorker
15.The Coming Tech Autocracy _ Sue Halpern _ The New York Review of Books
16.Venture-Backed Trumpism _ Ben Tarnoff _ The New York Review of Books
Feminism and Queer Realities
17.So you think you’ve been gaslit - Leslie Jamison New Yorker
18.Reproductive Injustice and Madame Restell the first female ‘abortionist’ - Susan Faludi NYRB
19.Tom of Finland and the making of gay movements - Jarrett Earnest The New York Review of Books