Interview Office hours with Forrest Stuart November 26, 2022 Forrest Stuart, author of Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy, shares some significant moments thus far in his career, offers valuable insight on some of his favorite books鈥攁nd may surprise you with his bedtime reading habits. Read More
Podcast Underwater Eye November 17, 2022 In聽The Underwater Eye, Margaret Cohen tells the fascinating story of how the development of modern diving equipment and movie camera technology has allowed documentary and narrative filmmakers to take human vision into the depths, creating new imagery of the seas and the underwater realm, and expanding the scope of popular imagination. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Chris Bail on polarization and the pandemic November 07, 2022 In this video Chris Bail, PUP Speaks speaker and author of Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing, demonstrates how the cracks that showed in our societies during the COVID-19 pandemic threaten to split us in two. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Viral Justice November 04, 2022 Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of聽COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Read More
Essay Can we accept other people鈥檚 relationships with the environment? November 02, 2022 In the acclaimed television series, The Good Place, the main characters come to learn that in over 500 years, no one has avoided going to 鈥渢he bad place鈥� after their death. Read More
Essay Playing in the gray October 28, 2022 How do global elites capitalize on risky frontier markets? They master the art of playing in the gray. Read More
Podcast Spiderweb Capitalism October 25, 2022 In 2015, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal documents exposing how the superrich hide their money using complex webs of offshore vehicles.聽 Read More
Essay Trust in a distrustful world October 18, 2022 US politics faces a serious trust deficit. MAGA Republicans don鈥檛 trust RINOs, leftist Democrats don鈥檛 trust their centrist colleagues, Republicans don鈥檛 trust Democrats (and vice versa), and trust in major social institutions has been weakening for decades. Read More
Interview What is viral justice? An interview with Ruha Benjamin October 11, 2022 In spring 2020, Ruha Benjamin received a DM on Twitter from her literary agent Sarah Levitt: 鈥淚鈥檓 hungry to read anything you have.鈥� Inspired, Benjamin began writing and spent the first few months of the pandemic conceiving what would become her new book, Viral Justice. Read More
Interview Office hours with Ruha Benjamin October 04, 2022 For this month鈥檚 Office Hours, I鈥檓 delighted to share wisdom and inspiration from Ruha Benjamin, author of the forthcoming聽Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. Read More
Interview Book Club Pick: Viral Justice October 03, 2022 Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of聽COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Read More
Interview Young, Gifted and Diverse: Q&A with the authors August 22, 2022 Despite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Work Matters August 17, 2022 Low-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as new mothers and fathers.聽Work Matters聽brings the unique stories of these diverse individuals to light. Read More
Essay Why work matters August 09, 2022 The United States is one of the most unfriendly places in the world to have a child, especially for low-wage, working parents. To date, our current policy initiatives for working families focus on giving parents time away from work to cope with family responsibilities, with policies such as parental leave, sick time, and scheduling flexibility. Read More
Interview Office hours with Karen Levy July 26, 2022 I am delighted to announce Office Hours, a new Ideas feature that we will share 锘縠very other month. I spend quite a bit of time talking to authors about recent research鈥攁nd eventually, we share the end result with you, in the form of a book. Read More
