Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Watch AAPSS Fellows Induction Event: Can Democracy Survive Growing Inequality?
“Can Democracy Survive Growing Inequality?” will be presented on January 14 as an online panel discussion, moderated by David Leonhardt of The New York Times and featuring the five scholars elected to the American Academy of Political and Social Science as 2020 fellows.
Harnessing the Power of a Mob
David Canter considers what the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington tells us about the power inherent in a crowd.
COSSA Offers Social Science Recommendations to New US President
In December, the Consortium of Social Science Associations, an umbrella organization that has served as a united voice in Washington, D.C. for […]
MoVE Project: Pandemic Opened Door to Greater Volunteer Action
Understanding how to create the conditions for a thriving civil society — that works in partnership with local governments and communities to […]
COVID, Simmel and the Future of Cities
Robert Dingwall summons the writings of Georg Simmel to present ‘crucial arguments against the break-up of urban life that is envisioned by some contemporary Utopians: the case against the 15-minute city needs to be heard.’
Medical Imperialism and the Fate of Christmas
What happens, asks Robert Dingwall, when governments attempt to impose a moral code on the everyday lives of citizens without the consent of those citizens?
Belinda Winder on Pedophilia
Forensic psychologist Belinda Winder wants society to understand one key aspect things about pedophilia. “Many people understand pedophilia to be both a sexual attraction to children but also the act of committing abuse against children,” she explains. “And that’s wrong.”
We Must Learn to Live With the Virus – Just Like Samuel Pepys Lived With the Great Plague
Humanity has a long history of dealing with things like pandemics. What history shows us is that the only practicable interventions are social and behavioral. How can we slow the movement of the new infection through the population while medical science catches up with treatments or vaccines?
