Shackles and Dollars: Historians and Economists Clash Over Slavery
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What’s Wrong With Literary Studies? Some Scholars Think the Field Has Become Cynical and Paranoid.
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A Reckoning: Colonial Atrocities and Academic Reputations on Trial in a British Courtroom
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This story first ran in The Chronicle Review. It was reprinted in The Guardian.
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Saskia Sassen’s Missing Chapter: A Sociologist Reckons With Her Father’s Relationship With Adolf Eichmann
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Categories: article • Tags: Adolf Eichmann, Bettina Stangneth, Columbia University, Economics, history, Holocaust, Philosophy, Saskia Sassen, sociology, Willem Sassen
The Betrayal of Abdullah Antepli: How a Duke Imam Became a Lightning Rod in the Campus Israel Wars
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Categories: article • Tags: Abdullah Antepli, BDS, Duke University, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Muslim Leadership Initiative, Omid Safi, Palestine, Religion, Shalom Hartman Institute
A Harvard Economist. A Coup Plot. A Career Forever Changed.
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Categories: article • Tags: Dani Rodrik, Economics, Gulen Movement, Harvard University, Pinar Dogan, politics, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
The Great Expectations of Matthew Desmond
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Categories: article • Tags: ethnography, housing, Matthew Desmond, Milwaukee, poverty, social science, sociology
‘Black Silent Majority’: How Crime-Terrorized African Americans Helped Spur Mass Incarceration
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Categories: article • Tags: Black Silent Majority, CUNY, history, mass incarceration, Michael Javen Fortner, Michelle Alexander, New York, political science, race, Rockefeller drug laws, The New Jim Crow
Living in Mortal Terror: Does Fear of Dying Drive Almost Everything We Do?
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Categories: article • Tags: ernest becker, jeff greenberg, sheldon solomon, social psychology, terror management theory, Tom Pyszczynski
