Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow of information...

Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...

Johnston traces the development of Žižek's recent thought in detail, salvaging the key philosophical themes while also offering several criticisms and developments of his own...

The relationship between Islam and the environment has a long and rich history across various Muslim societies...

How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion?

Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...

Fahy gives a thorough and compelling analysis of testimonies and reports on North Korea...

Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective...

"Social Media and the Public Interest" approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media,..

Finlayson traces their dispute from its inception in their earliest works to the 1995 exchange and its aftermath, as well as its legacy in contemporary debates...

"American Resistance" follows activists from the streets back to their congressional districts around the country...

Fong revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery...

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...

In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?"

Barstow explores the tension between Buddhist ethics and Tibetan cultural norms to offer a novel perspective on the spiritual and social dimensions of meat eating...

Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization relates to the electoral influence of federal spending...

Threatening Property examines the campaigns for residential segregation in early-20th century North Carolina...

How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)?

Kassab shows her readers that the demands for human dignity, freedom, and political participation had been robustly discussed by intellectuals in Syria and Egypt during the 1990s and 2000s...

Why would the Chinese Communist Party revive this former ritual? What powers lie in the symbolism of the “Golden Urn”?

Personalized healthcare―or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"―is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model...

Think running an insurance company or a bank is hard?  Try doing it as an African-American woman in the Jim Crow South...

Burchett re-examines what we assume about the rise of devotionalism in North India, tracing its flowering since India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” to present day...

Christopher Peacock, with a contribution from Lauran Hartley, masterfully introduces the work of contemporary Tibetan author Tsering Döndrup...

Kerim Yasar argues that modern technologies of sound reproduction and transmission have had profound—and often underappreciated—social, economic, and political effects...