“Illiberal Ideas Are Having a Negative Effect on Our Political Culture”: A Conversation with Thomas Main …looked to see if you can find circulation numbers for the John Birch Society’s publications and other earlier illiberal publications, but these numbers really can’t be compared with visits to…
Intrahousehold Income Inequality and Conflict: Testing an Economic Model of Domestic Violence in Kerala, India Domestic violence in developing countries has been an area of growing concern among researchers and activists in the women’s health and rights movements. An entrenched patriarchal system and a scarcity…
“Violence Is Contagious”: A Conversation with Andrew Papachristos …people tend to be connected to one another by a web of relationships. For example, in a study published in the Journal of Urban Health, Papachristos and two coauthors looked…
When We Torture: Moral and Pragmatic Arguments For and Against Torture, and Their Effect on Public Support For Redressing Past and Preventing Future Injustice …torture by the United States has stirred countless debates, further contributed to already-entrenched divisions in public opinion, and damaged the US’s reputation and moral authority worldwide. The project aimed specifically…
“You Have to Crack Down on Gun Offenders”: A Conversation with Peter Moskos …potential perils of depolicing. Moskos brings a unique point of view to the public conversation about policing: in addition to being a Harvard-trained sociologist, he spent more than a year…
Super Cops, Extrajudicial Killings, and Popular Imaginaries of Policing in Facebook Groups in Nairobi The overall goal of my research was to probe the continued public consent to extrajudicial killings by police through the lens of popular cultural forms in various Facebook groups in…
“This Isn’t Just a Normal Political Fight”: A Conversation with Lilliana Mason …public support for political violence remains low—according to Sean Westwood of the Polarization Research Lab, fewer than 2 percent of Americans believe that political murder is acceptable—even isolated incidence of…
The Effect of Publicized Life Sentences, Death Sentences, and Executions on Homicide …sentences in efforts to control lethal violence. Publicized Executions: Abolitionist States. A second contribution was to test two alternative theoretical explanations for dips in homicide after a publicized execution. Publicized…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Emerging Scholars …Scholars is, as always, a very select group of doctoral students whose dissertation projects—in anthropology, sociology, public health, history, law, and political science–were judged especially likely to further the foundation’s…
‘A Healthy Democracy Requires Social Trust’: A Conversation with Ilana Redstone …by becoming a prominent public intellectual, publishing frequently in mainstream media outlets like the Washington Post and in intellectual journals like Quilette and Persuasion. She is a vocal critic of…
