Social Science

The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day Support for Democrats up and down the ballot has plummeted throughout the countryside and the entire governing system is threatened by oneparty dominance After Donald Trumps surprising victories throughout rural America pundits and journalists went searching for…

The University of California Berkeleywidely known as Calis admired worldwide as a bastion of innovation and a hub for progressive thought Far less known are the universitys roots in plunder warfare and the promotion of white supremacy As Tony Platt shows in The Scandal of Cal these original sins sit at the center of UC…

Geekculture expert Ryan Britt takes us behind the pages and scenes of the sciencefiction phenomenon Dune charting the series life from cult scifi novels to some of the most visionary movies of all time Using original deepaccess reporting extensive research and insightful commentary The Spice Must Flow brings the true popularity of Dune out into…

Since the 1950s the American war on drugs has positioned white middleclass youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilitation instead of incarceration The Suburban Crisis traces how politicians the media and grassroots political activists crusaded to protect white families from perceived threats while criminalizing and incarcerating urban minorities and how a…

Critical Race Theory is consuming conservative America The mounting attacks on a onceobscure legal theory are upending public schooling legislating censorship driving elections and cleaving communities In this muchneeded response renowned scholar David Theo Goldberg cuts to the heart of the claims expressed in these attacks He punctures the demonization of Critical Race Theory uncovering…

Menand masculinity in generalare under attack For society to succeed we need strong men to lead us in all areas of life

We all know people who talk with their handsbut do they know what theyre saying with them Our gestures can reveal and contradict us and express thoughts we may not even know were thinking In Thinking with Your Hands esteemed cognitive psychologist Susan GoldinMeadow argues that gesture is vital to how we think learn and…

A Times Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023 Illuminates some of the great trends of our time Gideon Rachman Financial TimesVivid urgent and unsettling Tom Holland author of Dominion What does it now mean to call yourself European Who makes up this population of some 750 million sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine…

A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience and a manifesto on the power and untapped potential of touch Born Deaf into an ASLspeaking family and blind by adolescence John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement which gave birth to…

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