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A Conversation with Pia de Jong

Pia de Jong, Columnist and Novelist
This special Friends Event will feature the novelist and columnist Pia de Jong, who will be reading from her most recent work and discussing her life as a writer in the United States. Since moving to Princeton with her family in 2012, Pia de Jong...

Politics is not merely a series of policy battles, but an ongoing struggle for the primacy of our favored understandings about both how the world is and how it ought to be. For a social movement to be successful, it must win discrete policy battles, but, more importantly, re-write the political field in its own favor. Social movements achieve lasting success not primarily through pursuing political changes, but by changing politics itself.