The Institute for Advanced Study, since its founding in 1930,
has aspired to provide an unbiased environment for international
scholars to pursue vital and groundbreaking work in the sciences
and humanities. Its mission is to recruit the world’s...
Bernard Harcourt,
Visiting Professor in the School of Social Science, and Thomas
Anthony Durkin have filed a lawsuit against President Trump's
controversial executive order on immigration. The lawsuit was filed
on behalf of a pro bono client, Dr...
The following is a letter sent by Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, to the Institute Board of Trustees, Faculty and Emeriti, and Staff, on January 30, 2017.
Those that did not foresee the likelihood or even the
possibility of Donald Trump’s victory are going to find it hard to
discipline themselves to a balanced projection of his forthcoming
first term. To ardent liberals in the United States – not...
Americans have been using essentially the same rules to elect
presidents since the beginning of the Republic. In the general
election, each voter chooses one candidate; each state (with two
current exceptions) awards all its Electoral College votes...
Klaus Larres, current
Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member in the School of
Historical Studies, joins a panel discussion hosted by The
Heat, a CCTV-America program on political issues, to discuss
the China-Germany trade relationship...
Klaus Larres, Friends of
the Institute for Advanced Study Member in the School of Historical
Studies, discusses how a visit to China by Germany’s economics
minister highlighted a blunter approach to bilateral relations.
Kelefa Sanneh writes of former Member Joseph Carens's defense of a simple
proposition––"immigrants belong"––in an untangling of the
immigration debate in the New Yorker:
Carens makes a startling assertion toward the end of his book
[The Ethics of...
“The enduring vitality of the reactionary spirit even in the
absence of a revolutionary political program,” writes Mark Lilla (Member, Social Science,
1997–98), arises from the feeling that “to live a modern life
anywhere in the world today, subject...
The New Yorker's John Lanchester reviews recent books
on the threat of the euro by Nobel Prize-winning economist and
former Visitor Joseph
Stiglitz and its ideological and historical background by
former Visitor Markus
Brunnermeier.
