Professor Thomas J. Main In a 2022 speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, President Joe Biden issued a dramatic warning: democracy in the United States is “under assault,” he announced….

…journal Discourse. Greg Berman, the distinguished fellow of practice at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, spoke with Klutsey about what he’s learned from these conversations, the reaction to the war…

…your dad, who was a World War II vet. You said that if he were alive, he would be dismayed at the state of America. I realize you aren’t the…

…half, back to 1900, we saw that countries tended to depolarize after major systemic interruptions. Things like civil war or international war. Or they were in an authoritarian system and…

…First and Second World Wars. In doing so, it sheds light on the evolution of the radical political left in Central Europe and the various ways that leftist intellectuals understood…

…research, “Collective Crimes in Times of War: Explaining Local Violence Against Civilians in Croatia,” informed her book, Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War (Cornell University Press, 2019). This…

…Center. With his co-author David A. Hopkins, Grossmann recently published Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics, a book that documents a remarkable…

…knowledge on the nature, consequences, and reduction of violence in its many forms, including war, crime, and human aggression. 2025–2026 Fellows and Research Topics Aroob Alfaki (University of Khartoum, Social…

…finish my first academic manuscript, an ethnographic account of how algorithmic surveillance and weapons systems are upending what it means to wage and live with war in Israel and Palestine….

…(CISAC) at Stanford University. “More than three decades since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear conflict once again looms,” said Daniel F. Wilhelm, president of The…