Center for the literary arts in New York State
YOUNG VOTERS: WHERE WILL THEY TAKE US?
Raina Lipsitz and Tina Nguyen
4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, 2025
University at Albany, Multi-Purpose Room, Campus Center West
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222 See map.
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Raina Lipsitz is the author of The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics (2022), the first book to examine the leading role of young Americans in the progressive movement. Publishers Weekly called it, “An insider's account of how young progressives are influencing American politics and culture.” Kirkus called it, “A well-reported introduction to a growing, controversial movement among the younger electorate.”
A journalist who writes about politics and culture, Lipsitz contributes articles to The Atlantic, Nation, New Republic, and other publications.
Tina Nguyen is the author of The Maga Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out) (2024), about her early adventures with right-wing student activists, young Breitbart writers, COVID deniers, the apocalyptic Patriot Church, and the MAGA movement’s recruiting machine. Brian Stelter called it, “a must-read.”
A former employee of rising journalist Tucker Carlson, Nguyen is currently national correspondent for Puck, an American digital media company that aims to cover the “four centers of power” in the United States: Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Washington, and Wall Street.
Cosponsored by the Writing and Critical Inquiry Program (WCI) and the Honors College.
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Robert D. Kaplan’s newest book, Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis (Jan. 2025), offers an urgent exploration of a world in which every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict— featuring lessons from history that may help us stop the spiral.
His 23 bestselling books on foreign affairs and travel include The Loom of Time (2023), The Revenge of Geography (2012), The Coming Anarchy (1994), and Balkan Ghosts (1993). For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. Foreign Policy twice named him one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers.
Bartle Bull is the author of Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq (2024), an epic, five millennia history of the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers— the birthplace of civilization, and an essential crossroads between East and West up until today.
Bull has reported from the Middle East for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Foreign Policy, Die Welt, and other publications. He is the only western journalist to have been embedded with the Shia militia known as the Mahdi Army in Iraq.
Cosponsored by UAlbany’s Center for International Education and Global Strategy (CIEGS) and Student Fulbright Program; UAlbany Center for Global Health; the Fulbright Association- Eastern New York Chapter; Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Northeastern New York; and the International Center of the Capital Region (ICCR) at HVCC.
In 2024, UAlbany was named “One of the Top 10 Fulbright Producing Institutions” by the U.S. State Department.