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THE EMBATTLED UNIVERSITY / Vol. 92, No. 2 (Summer 2025)
Arjun Appadurai and Arien Mack, Issue Coeditors Oz Frankel, Journal Editor Lisa Anderson From Pursuing Truth to Managing Stress: The Costs and Consequences of the Therapeutic Turn in American Universities The desire to simultaneously encourage and contain transformative research and to both nurture and control critical thinking has been a tension since the very creation of the university. In recent years, efforts to manage these conflicting impulses have been assigned to ind
Social Research An Int'l Quarterly
Jun 3, 20254 min read


LIBERALISM UNDER SIEGE / Vol. 92, No. 1 (Spring 2025)
Cass R. Sunstein, Guest Editor Oz Franke, Journal Editor Cass R. Sunstein Freedom and Pluralism: Guest Editor's Introduction Anne Barnhill and Brian Hutler Is Liberalism a Defensible Framework for Pandemic Policymaking? Liberal commitments to upholding civil liberties and relying on representative democratic procedures may seem incompatible with an effective response to an emergency like a pandemic. At the same time, the high stakes of pandemic policymaking and disagreement
Social Research An Int'l Quarterly
Apr 8, 20255 min read


POLICING / Vol. 91, No. 4 (Winter 2024)
Arien Mack, Issue Editor Oz Frankel, Journal Editor Jake Monaghan The Philosophical Problem of Democratic Policing This article provides a critical overview of democratic policing from a philosophical perspective. To do so, it constructs a stylized taxonomy of philosophical approaches to the topic, featuring the legalist and the participatory democratic. This taxonomy allows for the formulation of general theoretical problems for democratically legitimizing police power. The
Social Research An Int'l Quarterly
Jan 9, 20254 min read


CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM / Vol. 91, No. 3 (Fall 2024)
William Milberg, Guest Editor Oz Frankel, Journal Editor Federico Finchelstein Authoritarianism and Free Markets: Notes on Fascism, Populism, and Economics Is there a link between authoritarian politics and free market economics? How important has economic theory been historically to the rise of authoritarian systems and ideologies? Are fascism and populism determined by economic priorities or economic interests? In this article, I argue that economics was not that important
Social Research An Int'l Quarterly
Oct 10, 20246 min read
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