Essay Charm is everywhere and it defines our contemporary politics September 12, 2024 Personality rules our politics. We pay way more attention to individual politicians, than to policies, institutions, or abstract values. Read More
Podcast Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics August 12, 2024 Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person—perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. Read More
Podcast Privileging Place August 10, 2024 Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person—perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. Read More
Podcast The Last Human Job August 08, 2024 With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Long Live Queer Nightlife August 08, 2024 In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife. Read More
Essay The life of American Afterlives July 12, 2024 I first became aware of Shannon Dawdy’s American Afterlives during the fall of 2019, when her friend and fellow New Orleanian, the literary scholar and Princeton author Bryan Wagner, suggested that she contact Princeton University Press about her manuscript. Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Last Human Job July 05, 2024 With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. Read More
Reading List Read with Pride June 03, 2024 Celebrate Pride throughout the year with this diverse collection of books exploring LGBTQ+ issues and perspectives. Read More
Essay The unexpected dividends of a congressional internship May 23, 2024 When I first set foot on Capitol Hill 18 years ago to begin my summer internship, I was immediately struck by the awe-inspiring presence of the Capitol. Read More
Essay A sermon from a mountebank? Religious messaging in the age of AI May 21, 2024 The news that the religious group Catholic Answers was obliged to “defrock” an AI priest called Father Justin after it gave answers falsely claiming to be a real priest has caused widespread alarm among the faithful and glee among the skeptical. Read More
Interview Michelle S. Phelps on The Minneapolis Reckoning May 09, 2024 Drawing on years of fieldwork, “The Minneapolis Reckoning” describes how Minneapolis arrived at the brink of police abolition and what happened next. Read More
Essay New problems in small places April 29, 2024 One of the many trends that made headlines during the Covid-19 pandemic was people moving from large, dense cities to smaller cities, towns, and even rural areas, bypassing the suburbs. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Allison Daminger on the unseen cognitive labor of women April 09, 2024 Allison Daminger introduces us to the idea of cognitive labor, a form of work akin to project management, and demonstrates that this invisible burden falls disproportionately on women. Read More
Interview Amin Ghaziani on Long Live Queer Nightlife April 02, 2024 Not all gay bars are the same. And so, if there are many types of gay bars, then there must be many reasons why some of them are struggling. Those that have folded faced a variety of challenges, some unique to a particular place, others more widely shared. Read More
Podcast Words and Distinctions for the Common Good February 12, 2024 Social scientists do research on a variety of topics—gender, capitalism, populism, and race and ethnicity, among others. They make descriptive and explanatory claims about empathy, intelligence, neoliberalism, and power. Read More
