Across the world, our lives have been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. All fields of study are impacted, as our medical, agricultural, economic, political, and cultural systems are challenged. The crisis reinforces the need to think differently and boldly about the world today and the world ahead.

The…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Christian C. Lentz, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Điện Biên Phủ is a place often invoked but poorly understood. On 7 May 1955, a year to the day after Vietnam’s great victory over France, a ceremony on…