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Robert Paarlberg

Robert Paarlberg, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, is author of The United States of Excess.

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Is the new food movement a promising path to the democratic and sustainable Anthropocene Jedediah Purdy seeks? I share his goals and values, but the new food movement will not get us...
Robert Paarlberg
Pamela Ronald provides a clear, scientist’s view of the GE food and crop debate. My only difference might be with her upbeat tone regarding the future spread of this technology. Particularly when...
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