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The threat to American democracy springs, most fundamentally, from the social fragmentation wrought by a post-industrial economy.

Ruth Berins Collier Jake Grumbach

Uncertainty Is Here!

Nearly two years into a global pandemic, uncertainty has profoundly unsettled both our personal and political lives. In our Fall 2021 book, eleven thinkers consider its scientific, philosophical, and economic aspects. Together they make clear that uncertainty need not be paralyzing. Leading this book’s forum, Sheila Jasanoff, pioneering scholar of science and technology studies, argues that public policy could benefit from a much more serious acknowledgment of uncertainty. Also featuring Jana Bacevic, Caley Horan, Annie Howard, Lily Hu, Michael D. Jackson, Jay S. Kaufman, Oded Na’aman, Zeynep Pamuk, Simon Torracinta, Alexandre White.

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From the Archive: bell hooks

With news of the passing of bell hooks, we revisit a roundtable she participated in on the relationship between Black intellectuals and the wider Black community.

“I do believe that if we have greater spaces for us to speak the truth of our drug addiction, our money crisis, our all-of-those-things, we will also find ourselves linked more fundamentally to other Black people in ways that suggest there are many things that do not distinguish us.” Read more.