Bryce Vist

Nov 30, 2023 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Ariella Reynolds |Bryce Vist |Alice Cheng

Fifty-five decibels. That is as loud as the room got when American chess wunderkind Bobby Fischer took on the Soviet chess machine Boris Spassky on July 11, 1972 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Officials began monitoring the hall’s sound levels when Fischer threatened to walk out of the “match of the century” if they did not remove all cameras—with a match this important, there was no room for error.

May 2, 2023 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Ryan Doherty |Veronica Dickstein |Bryce Vist |Anusha Gupta

The South African government has a longstanding history of HIV denialism. Throughout his presidency from 1999 to 2008, Thabo Mbeki continually questioned the validity of HIV research. Infamously, he presented his dissenting positions in a letter to world leaders in 2000. In speeches that same year, he stated, “A virus cannot cause a syndrome.

May 2, 2023 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Bryce Vist |Anusha Gupta |Hayden Deffarges |Veronica Dickstein

“What happens to a country without land? Where will we call home?” Such are the considerations facing Tuvalu, a small island nation in the South Pacific, where sea levels are increasing at twice the pace of the worldwide average. Tuvalu, with a population of around 11,000, is spread across a set of extremely low-lying and narrow islands.

May 1, 2023 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Bryce Vist |Anusha Gupta |Hayden Deffarges |Ilektra Bampicha-Ninou

The first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Ivan Bunin, was unable to do so as a proud representative of his country.