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FOOTBALL POLITICS / Vol. 92, No. 3 (Fall 2025)
Sean Jacobs , Guest Editor Oz Franke, Journal Editor Sean Jacobs Guest Editor’s Introduction Chris Bolsmann Men’s Professional Soccer in the United States: The Proverbial Sport of Tomorrow Men’s professional soccer in the United States is both popular and profitable. This article offers a broad historical overview of the key factors in the development of the professional game, highlighting the continuities and changes in its organization. First, wealthy investors have co
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Nov 15, 20255 min read


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
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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
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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
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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
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Oct 10, 20246 min read


EXILE / Vol. 91, No. 2 (Summer 2024)
Arien Mack, Issue Editor Oz Frankel, Journal Editor Avishai Margalit Internal Exile and Politics This essay has two parts. One scans...
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Jul 5, 20247 min read


SOCIAL RESEARCH AT 90 / Vol. 91, No. 1 (Spring 2024)
Arien Mack , Journal Editor Michael Walzer The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success) This article considers the useful...
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Apr 1, 20248 min read


FRONTIERS OF SOCIAL INQUIRY / Vol. 90, No. 4 (Winter 2023)
Arien Mack, Journal Editor Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka Doing Politics with Animals An increasing number of theorists are challenging...
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Jan 4, 20245 min read


PATIENCE / Vol. 90, No. 3 (Fall 2023)
Arjun Appadurai, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor Arjun Appadurai Waiting for Patience: Guest Editor's Introduction Patience and...
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Sep 28, 20234 min read


THE CROWD / Vol. 90, No. 2 (Summer 2023)
James Walkup, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor James Walkup Guest Editor's Introduction Michael T. Heaney The Multivalence of Crowds Crowds have diverse meanings and serve varied functions for their participants and observers. To make sense of this diversity, the ontology of crowds can be understood through two dimensions: (1) global/collective processes versus local/individual processes; and (2) symbolic benefits/costs versus concrete benefits/costs. Combining these d
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Jul 12, 20234 min read


SCIENCE UNDER STRESS / Vol. 90, No. 1 (Spring 2023)
Ahmed Bawa, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor Ahmed Bawa Guest Editor's Introduction Ari Sitas Science and Scientists in Distress...
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Apr 18, 20234 min read


PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM AS EVIDENCE / Vol. 89, No. 4 (Winter 2022)
Paul A. Kottman, Guest Editor Arien M ack , Journal Editor Paul A. Kottman Guest Editor's Introduction Of what are photographed or filmed images evidence? This is the organizing question of the present volume. This question is taken in many directions by the contributors, who write from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives. Some are philosophers; some are scholars; some are photographers. As a result, this issue contains reflections on various declinations of t
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Jan 17, 20235 min read


CONSPIRACY THINKING / Vol. 89, No. 3 (Fall 2022)
Oz Frankel, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor Oz Frankel Guest Editor's Introduction The following articles address diverse...
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Oct 15, 20227 min read


BOOKS THAT MATTER II / Vol. 89, No. 2 (Summer 2022)
Arien Mack, Editor Seyla Benhabib Thomas Hobbes on My Mind Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes Hobbes’s Leviathan has long been recognized as a...
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Jul 7, 20228 min read


HOSPITALITY / Vol. 89, No. 1 (Spring 2022)
Arien Mack, Editor Wendy Doniger Gods as Difficult Guests in Greek and Indian Mythology Though ancient Hebrew, Greek, and Indian texts...
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Apr 15, 20224 min read


THE GLOBAL RISE OF XENOPHOBIA / Vol. 88, No. 4 (Winter 2021)
Arien Mack, Editor Marci Shore This Is What Evil Looks Like: Toward a Phenomenology of Evil in Postmodern Form This essay draws on...
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Jan 15, 20224 min read


LONELINESS / Vol. 88, No. 3 (Fall 2021)
Arien Mack, Editor Nick Lemann The Lonely Crowd The Lonely Crowd, David Riesman’s sociological bestseller, was published a little over 70...
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Oct 20, 20213 min read


TURKEY TODAY / Vol. 88, No. 2 (Summer 2021)
Arien Mack, Editor Karabekir Akkoyunlu The Five Phases of Turkey’s Foreign Policy under the AKP How to make sense of the frequent twists...
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Oct 18, 20216 min read


THE COMMONS / Vol. 88, No. 1 (Spring 2021)
Akeel Bilgrami, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman, and Brett Clark Marx and the Commons Karl...
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May 9, 20214 min read


APOLOGY / Vol. 87, No. 4 (Winter 2020)
Arien Mack, Editor Margo Anderson The Census and the Japanese "Internment": Apology and Policy in Statistical Practice The evacuation and...
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Jan 5, 20216 min read
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