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27
Feb
2023

Guns and Domestic Violence: Why Federal Laws Fail...

Tausha Haight, her five children and her mother were all shot to death in January 2023 by her husband, whom she had filed for divorce from just weeks earlier, and who had been investigated for child...
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19
Jan
2023

In Defence of Competition

This book grew out of two entwined questions. One has followed me throughout my academic career: what are the origins and nature of modern liberal society? The other came into view more clearly...
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2
Jan
2023

The Big Lie and Much More

Donald Trump’s presidency has done more damage to America’s political institutions than most people realize. I explain how in my new book, Institutions Under Siege: Donald Trump’s Attack on...
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20
Jun
2022

Breastfeeding Moms Need Formula, too, Because...

To date, millions of American parents have been impacted by the baby formula shortage but breastfeeding parents largely remain unpanicked. Social media has exploded with posts taking note of this and...
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8
Jun
2022

Neoliberal deindustrialization, working-class...

How do workers react to the undermining of their means of livelihood? What are the political consequences of rising unemployment and inequality? In recent years, the expansion of right-wing movements...
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6
Apr
2022

What holds society together?

This is one of those questions that we rarely ask, unless we feel that something is already amiss. Most of the time, what holds society together is probably something we do not actively think about, like...
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16
Dec
2021

Learning Values and Inequalities in Religiously...

How do young people learn and embody moral values in multireligious societies? How do Christian and Muslim schools establish and reproduce social inequalities? In my book I argue that faith-oriented schools...
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1
Dec
2021

“Buried in the Red Dirt”: Thinking about...

As I was conceptualizing a project on death in early 2016, a friend and colleague I was visiting in Jerusalem mentioned a sloppy online essay that had drawn the ire of Palestinian feminists. The piece...
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