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?

McGowan combines sophisticated discussion of matters like the limits of formal logic and the history of German Idealism with playful allusions to Star Trek characters and classic films like Casablanca and Bridge on the River Kwai...

Dienstag considers the interaction between our experiences in watching films and our positions as citizens in a representative democracy...

O'Healy explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country’s shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades...

Fontelieu seeks to examine a collection of social and political traumas, both personal and collective...

Wallace traces the history of how objectivity became the gold standard in journalism, and looks at examples of people who have bucked the trend along the way...

Baron addresses an important cultural question about women’s rights and the rights and identities of non-binary people, and reveals how we got from he and she to zie, hir, and singular they...

What does music tell us about society?

Neely and Hou-Lin explore the rise of finance in American life over the last forty years and its implications for American workers, families, and economies...

The essays address three substantive areas: the sociology of literature, cultural materialism and the cultural politics of the New Left, and utopian and science fiction studies..,

Sayyid offers a breathtakingly brilliant meditation on the problem of decolonization through Muslim thought and politics...

Should we understand the rise of Trump or the success of Brexit in terms of populism? Culture? Xenophobia? Do the same political forces produce Sanders and Trump?

For some time, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has been treated with a certain level of skepticism because of his engagement with the Nazi party...

D'Ignazio and Klein call for changing the way we think about data and how it is communicated, particularly through visualization...