Social Science

In the West, when non-white men are implicated in cases of sexual harassment and violence, the debate inevitably is much less about the nature of gender-based violence and its systemic presence in our societies, and much more about the "evidence"...

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, writes about American leftists and U.S. foreign policy:

First and foremost, the left needs to think seriously about the use of force, which is the central issue in foreign-policy...

In an interview with Sonya Faure of Libération, Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, discusses his forthcoming book Life: A Critical User’s Manual and the new edition of Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History...

Of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, the last major immigration reform bill, former Member Mae Ngai writes, “It embodied the idea that we could ‘wipe the slate’ clean by legalizing the undocumented already here and preventing future...

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, joins Marty Moss-Coane of WHYY in a discussion of the American left's approach to foreign policy and his latest book A Foreign Policy for the Left (Yale University Press, January...

Shatema Threadcraft, Member in the School of Social Science, has been awarded many prizes for her book, Intimate Justice: The Black Female and the Body Politic.

Jean-Louis Fabiani, Member in the School of Social Science, will give two presentations on January 27 and 28 at the Brooklyn Public Library as part of A Night of Philosophy and Ideas. The event, which takes place on Saturday, January 27, at 7 p.m...

Free speech makes no distinctions as to quality; academic freedom does. Are all opinions equally valid in a university classroom? Are professors being "ideological" when they refuse to accept the Bible as scientific evidence? What, then, becomes of...

In 1970, the economist Albert Hirschman, former Professor in the School of Social Science, published a short book outlining the choices available to public officials confronted by immoral or dysfunctional behavior in office. One option was to “kick...

The Times Literary Supplement's Patricia Williams explores the suppression of black women and girls in America, referring to the work of Shatema Threadcraft, Member in the School of Social Science, in an explanation of the ways in which enduring...