2025 Stanley Feingold Lecture Series on American Politics

Join former Under Secretary of State and Time magazine editor Richard Stengel for a timely discussion on the proliferation of digital disinformation and its impact on democracy. With political divides widening and conspiracy theories rising, can open dialogue still lead us to the truth?
Moderated by the Moynihan Center’s Managing Director Michael Miller, this discussion confronts the urgent question: how do we strengthen democratic discourse in an era of uncertainty and manipulation?

The event will be livestreamed and can be viewed .

Richard Stengel is the former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the Obama administration. Prior to serving in government, Stengel was the Editor of TIME for seven years. He was also the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center. In the 1990s, he collaborated with Nelson Mandela on the South African’s bestselling autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. The many hours of taped interviews from that time were the basis of Stengel’s 10-part award-winning audiobook, Mandela: The Lost Tapes, from Audible. Stengel is the author of a number of books, the most recent of which is Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation. He is the co-chair of CARE, the global humanitarian organization, and a political analyst for MSNBC. Stengel is a graduate of Princeton University where he played on the 1975 NIT championship basketball team. He then studied at Christ Church, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar.

About the Stanley Feingold Lecture Series

Stanley Feingold taught political science to a generation of CCNY students. To his students, he was far more than an exceptional teacher: he was a mentor, a guide for their lives, and an inspiration to live lives with integrity, intellectual honesty, and for many, to devote their lives to public service. He made his students intellectually hungry, challenged their assumptions, and taught them analytic rigor and careful reasoning. He retained an intellectual/teaching relationship with his students from the 1950s and 1960s for over fifty years, until his death in 2017 at the age of 91.
This Lecture Series has been supported by many of his students, in loving memory of a teacher who personified the highest values of The City College of New York.

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