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Stanley Hoffmann

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Thomas Piketty.

How political ideas keep economic inequality going

Thomas Piketty takes a long look at global history and ways to redistribute wealth

DateMarch 3, 2020March 4, 2020

As a leading scholar of international relations and American foreign policy, Stanley Hoffmann left a deep mark on contemporary understandings of some of the most perplexing issues of our time.

Stanley Hoffmann, 86

Memorial Minute - Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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DateApril 15, 2016April 17, 2019

After hiding from the Nazis as a young boy, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor Emeritus Stanley Hoffmann wrote: “It wasn’t I who chose to study world politics. World politics forced themselves on me at a very early age.”

Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard professor and scholar, 86

Hoffmann was a leading public intellectual on both sides of the Atlantic for more than 50 years

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DateSeptember 14, 2015

Alan Riding (left), author of “And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris,” speaks with Harvard Professor Stanley Hoffmann prior to the discussion at the Humanities Center. As a young boy, Hoffmann recalls being forced to flee from Nice to a small town in southern France during the occupation.

Art during wartime

Book chronicles cultural life in Nazi-occupied Paris

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DateOctober 26, 2010May 15, 2019

"You cannot do better intellectually, ethically, and practically speaking than to come to terms with the question: What is a well-constituted society, and what is my role in it?” said University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann. “The best way to begin answering this question is to understand how great thinkers did so, and to be open-minded and critical in one’s approach to those thinkers. … Majoring in social studies is one of the very best ways for inquisitive minds to commence their journeys to leadership in virtually any 21st century profession.”

Social Studies at 50

Hundreds of alumni and past faculty celebrate milestone

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DateSeptember 27, 2010March 6, 2019

A half-century of life at Harvard

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DateDecember 11, 2008December 15, 2017

Celebrating the life and career of Stanley Hoffmann

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DateDecember 11, 2008