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Food and Ghosts in Peru

May 25 2021
by María Elena García, author of Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in PeruI never intended to write a book about food. And certainly, I never planned to write a book that critiqued the chefs credited for transforming Peru—the country of my birth
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Post-pandemic Will the Poor Get Poorer?

Oct 29 2020
Anirudh KrishnaAnirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. His research investigates
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