In a March 23 article in Project Syndicate, Professor Shang-Jin Wei discussed measures policymakers should take to address and recover from the current coronavirus pandemic. In the article, titled "Beating COVID-19 and the Economic Pandemic," Professor Wei advised countries to prepare supplies and hospital beds quickly, and to enforce social distancing as soon as there are … [Read more...]
Columbia’s Gregory Pflugfelder on Godzilla’s Global History
Advertisements for the new "Godzilla" are ubiquitous this summer. Weatherhead East Asian Institute faculty member Gregory Pflugfelder is well acquainted with such images. Pflugfelder, a professor of Japanese history at Columbia University, has collected around five thousand posters and promotional materials for Godzilla films and other Japanese monster flicks. His archive of … [Read more...]
