Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, George Soros Visiting Chair at DPP in the winter term, held a public lecture on March 2 titled Is Violent America Europe's Future? Chebel d'Appollonia, a professor at Rutgers University, Newark and an affiliated Senior Researcher at Sciences Po Paris, discussed some of the negative sides of identity politics in the United States, building on the work of her forthcoming book, as well as how this leads to division of the left and an ever-increasing polarization of the political landscape in America.