How does technology shape music?

Johnston looks at three recent French theorists, Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillasoux, arguing that all three ultimately fail to maintain a consistent atheism...

How should we understand our cities?

Chhabria argues that cities are not naturally occurring spaces or innocent administrative categories marked by lines on a map: instead they are spaced produced by constant labors of inclusion and exclusion which serve to keep capital flowing while stigmatizing the laboring poor...

Manus argues that Trump and other similar figures and movements represent a new form of conservatism, one with a long history of development, and formed as a response to various social dynamics...

According to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history...

Zevin helps us see what he calls “really existing liberalism”––that is, a liberalism that rooted for empire, embraced finance, and has always wielded an ambivalence towards democracy...

Michelson and Harrison examine what tactics are effective in changing public opinion regarding transgender people...

Brock theorizes what it means to be Black online, particularly when the physical body can neither be understood nor constrained...

The ubiquity of technology that collects massive volumes of all kinds of data lends itself to one overarching question: “What?” As in what is the purpose(s) of this collection? What are the benefits? And, what are the impacts?

Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence?

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

The resurgence of the radical Right in America and Europe has drawn attention to the existence of political philosophers and writers whose names are only sometimes familiar and whose thought is generally unknown...

How does music help us to understand the contemporary city?

Piketty expands his focus to include the political and ideological in his comparative analysis of capital accumulation and ‘inequality regimes’.

In early 2019, freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Ed Markey proposed a bold new piece of legislation, now very well known as the Green New Deal.,,

Blumenthal excavates the real, connected story behind the rise of Donald Trump, international jihad, Western ultra-nationalism and the many extremist forces that threaten peace across the globe: American imperialism...

Franke’s ambitious new book challenges Americans to face our collective responsibility for ongoing racial inequality...

In 2016, Jordan Peterson, a relatively obscure professor of psychology, released several videos on YouTube making critical remarks on political correctness and related political legislation...

What is the relationship between inequality and classical music?

Synthesizing literature in political sociology and urban studies, Garrido shows how experiences along the housing divide in Manila constitute political subjectivities and shape the very experience of democracy in contemporary Philippines...

The authors show that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve....

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Stein analyses the longstanding failure of America’s theatre industry to address issues of diversity...

What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common?