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Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution

Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution

Since the Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s, Republicans have consistently championed tax cuts for individuals and businesses, regardless of whether the economy is booming or in recession or whether […]


Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease

Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease

For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a series of little-known regulations […]


The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration, is a sweeping history of how India has used its poor and elite emigrants to further Indian development and how Indian emigrants have […]


Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis

Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis

Changes in federal housing policies over the past several decades shifted the primary responsibility for providing low-income renters with affordable housing from the government to private landlords. Federal, state, and […]


Racism, Capitalism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Racism, Capitalism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief the deep structural problems affecting nonwhite racialized workers in the core and periphery. Yet, many social scientific analyses of the global political […]


City on the Edge: Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule

City on the Edge: Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule

For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong […]


Clash of Empires: From ‘Chimerica’ to the ‘New Cold War’

Clash of Empires: From ‘Chimerica’ to the ‘New Cold War’

Many believe the recent deterioration in US–China relations represents a ‘New Cold War’ rooted in ideological differences. However, such differences did not prevent the two countries from pursuing economic integration […]


American Democracy: From Tocqueville to Town Halls to Twitter

American Democracy: From Tocqueville to Town Halls to Twitter

In this groundbreaking book, sociologist Andrew Perrin shows that rules and institutions, while important, are not the core of democracy. Instead, as Alexis de Tocqueville showed in the early years […]


Group Experiment and Other Writings: The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany

Group Experiment and Other Writings: The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany

During the occupation of West Germany after the Second World War, the American authorities commissioned polls to assess the values and opinions of ordinary Germans. They concluded that the fascist […]


Guilt and Defense: On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany

Guilt and Defense: On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany

Beginning in 1949, Theodor W. Adorno and other members of the reconstituted Frankfurt Institute for Social Research undertook a massive empirical study of German opinions about the legacies of the […]