<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2024/0913-election-preview.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>Skidmore College offers ‘new ways of thinking about the election’</title><author>James Helicke</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>09/13/2024 03:18:24 PM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>Political theorist Susan McWilliams Barndt opened Skidmore’s fall election programming with a lecture considering liberalism, race, and U.S. political thought — one of many election-related events on campus this fall.</description><category>News</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2024/images/0913-election-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Susan McWilliams Barndt speaks at the Tang"/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2024/images/0913-election-featured.jpg" alt="Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics at Pomona College, delivers the lecture “A Tale of Two Liberalisms: Desegregating American Political Thought,” at the Tang Teaching Museum on  Monday, Sept. 9."/></image><caption>Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics at Pomona College, delivers the lecture “A Tale of Two Liberalisms: Desegregating American Political Thought,” at the Tang Teaching Museum on  Monday, Sept. 9.</caption></item>