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What will the elections of 2018 reveal about the current state of American political parties and the ideological polarization between liberals and conservatives? The Challenge at Muhlenberg links academic departments, offices of student affairs and student organizations, including ‘BergVotes, in collaborative efforts to increase meaningful campus dialogue, promote voter registration and mobilization and create a more inclusive democracy. The Challenge does not support or oppose candidates for public office or take positions with respect to political parties. Gun Control Politics Over Two Decades of Change Thursday, September 13 Moyer Hall, Miller Forum, 7 p.m. Goss’ work focuses on how everyday Americans participate in public life—with a particular focus on guns, gender and giving—and why it matters. The Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University, Goss is author of “The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women’s Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice” (University of Michigan Press, 2013) and “Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America” (Princeton University Press, 2006, 2009) and co-author of “The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford University Press, 2014). A visiting assistant professor of political science at Muhlenberg, Dardani earned his B.A. Election Night Party Tuesday, November 6 Seegers Union, Red Door, 7 p.m. Join friends and colleagues for an evening of pizza, live news coverage and election returns as the nation selects its new leaders. Thursday, February 7, 2019 Moyer Hall, Miller Forum, 7 p.m. Deneen is the author of “Why Liberalism Failed” (Yale University Press, 2018), which has been reviewed by dozens of major media outlets including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Voting at Muhlenberg College Seegers Union at Muhlenberg College is the polling place for the 11th Ward, 4th District in Allentown. To register to vote in other locations, contact your local county board of elections, or visit the Muhlenberg Office of Community Engagement for assistance.

On the State of Australia and Race Race politics is back. But his speech also follows a recent burst of activity by his office that included several data-heavy reports showing the wide gap between Australia’s ethnically diverse population and the mostly white elites running government and business. Dr. Soutphommasane grew up in Fairfield, an area of Sydney that has long been the first stop for immigrant families like his own — and here he is arguing that those who fear such areas do not understand how they work. On Double Standards On the so-called Sudanese crime crisis in Melbourne, if we turn to the facts, we know that in Victoria Sudanese-born people aren’t the only ones overrepresented in crime statistics. In fact, according to Victoria’s Crime Statistics Agency, criminal offenders born in Sudan make up about 1 percent of all offenders. That’s greater than their proportion of the total population in Victoria, but state figures show that is also true of Australian-born offenders (who make up almost 72 percent of criminal offenders and roughly 65 percent of the population) and New Zealanders (who are 2.2 percent of offenders and 1.6 percent of the population in Victoria). They’re the complaints of snowflakes who can’t hack it when people challenge racism. It’s a fragility that explains why when racism is called out, the real offense in some people’s eyes is not that an act of discrimination occurred, but rather that someone was subjected to being called racist. More tough talk from Dr. Soutphommasane — especially on the point that some people are less offended by a racist act than by someone calling it what it is. He acknowledged at one point that “prejudice and discrimination are like the permanent stains of our humanity,” but phrases like “implicit bias” or “unconscious bias” — schools of thought explaining that racist outcomes are often tied to historical and unseen influences that shape us all, regardless of background — do not appear in Dr. Soutphommasane’s speech.