SIU’s Simon Institute hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar on nation’s political contradictions

CARBONDALE — Paul Starr, a Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar at Princeton University and the founding co-editor of The American Prospect magazine, will join Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute for a virtual conversation on Tuesday, Dec. 9.

Starr and John Shaw, institute director, will discuss political tensions and contradictions in the United States and Starr’s new book, “American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now.”

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