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If you’ve ever spent any time with kids, you probably know the drill: “Why are leaves green?” “How does the microwave make food hot?” “Why is snow cold?” “How do airplanes stay in the sky?” Our own kids can turn the simplest observations into an unending chain of hows and whys. And while these moments […]
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Corruption is often treated as an obvious problem with an obvious explanation. Public officials, driven by self-interest, abuse their positions; to stop this behavior, we need better incentives, stricter enforcement, and stronger institutions. This way of thinking has shaped decades of research and policy, producing global rankings, reform toolkits, and a vast anti-corruption industry worth […]
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Most Americans (and economists) are clueless regarding the racial wealth gap A recent study asked over a thousand people their perceptions of the wealth gap between White and Black Americans. Respondents were invited to compare the wealth of a typical Black household assuming White households held $100, both currently and in 1963. They could choose […]
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In 2002, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), a group with deep roots in religious politics, won a decisive electoral victory in Turkey. The party secured a majority of the national vote, formed a single party government, and subsequently remained in power for more than two decades. To longtime observers of Turkish politics, the idea […]
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In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the New York Times documented over 145 instances of workers being disciplined or terminated for comments related to Kirk. Many of those workers were professors—and a surprising number were tenured professors. In other words, academia’s most elite workers were being punished or fired alongside “health care workers, lawyers […]
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Efforts to “globalize” social theory, overturn the limitations of dominant theoretical perspectives, and rethink the canon have been underway for decades in different academic disciplines. We suggest that anticolonial thought should be brought to the fore as a principal source for this project. Anticolonialism, as a political stance against empire and imperialism, has produced and […]
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The rise of the gig economy and precarious labor has caught both academic and media attention. What happens to the largest workforce in the world? The over 200-million rural-to-urban migrant workers have been behind the engine of China’s manufacturing, making China the workshop of the world. Their hard labor and discipline have contributed to the […]
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In recent decades, authoritarianism has been on the rise around the globe. Some countries experienced democratic backsliding, while others failed to build robust democratic institutions during a period of transition from a nondemocratic regime. Nonetheless, an escalation of authoritarian tendencies was met with resistance. Women played a vital role in pro-democracy movements and contemporary revolutions […]
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