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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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Deterrence has long served as a justification for legal punishment of crime. The logic? Fear of punishment will cause individuals, groups, organizations, and the like to reduce their criminal activity, or, better yet, not to engage in it at all. The idea goes back millennia, but was not formally articulated until the eighteenth century, first […]
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The German Weimar Republic lasted a mere fifteen years, from the end of the First World War to Hitler’s dictatorship in 1933. It nevertheless became the paradigmatic historical event shaping political thinking about fragility and robustness in the postwar West. Weimar is routinely invoked in scholarly writings, op-eds, and political commentary to make sense of […]
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One of the most common explanations for our divided world is that we are all very different from each other, and that getting along is thus correspondingly difficult. The world is a very diverse place, we tell ourselves, so agreements are difficult to come by. The best we can do is to keep the communication […]
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“The law is reason, free from passion.” This statement, attributed to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, suggests that judges, lawyers, and scholars must examine the law objectively, without succumbing to the influence of personal emotions or experiences. But might our emotions, experiences, and identities actually influence how we approach the law? And, if so, is there […]
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