Annelise Riles on the Pandemic as a Window of Opportunity

Published: Aug. 6, 2020, 4 a.m.

Anthropologist and legal scholar Annelise Riles, the executive director of Northwestern University\u2019s Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies, discusses America\u2019s shifting relationship with China amid Covid-19, rethinking how knowledge is made, and how language can be both a barrier to and a means for human connection.