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Neoliberal deindustrialization, working-class identity and collective action...
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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Breastfeeding Moms Need Formula, too, Because Workplace Milk-Pumping...
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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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 the Deep...
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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 over...
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Guns and Domestic Violence: Why Federal Laws Fail to Keep Women Safe
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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Agreements in Our Family Lives
Many of our interactions with other people are structured by formal or informal agreements: we agree to work for a company for a set wage, we pay other people to fix our car or to...
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The Tea Party Insurgency and the Great Recession:
It Was the Economy, Again, Stupid! The Great Recession, a global economic crisis that began in 2007, generated extensive protest of varying intensity and form in nations around the world. The typical...
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China’s New Wealth: Connections, Trust, Gender, and Crisis
When I was growing up China was one of the world’s poorest countries; today its economy is the largest in the world when measured by purchasing power parity. How did this transformation occur? This is...
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Embracing Positionality in Research
“The law is reason, free from passion.” This statement, attributed to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, suggests that judges, lawyers, and scholars must examine the law objectively, without succumbing...
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A Different Take on Ideological Polarization
One of the most common explanations for our divided world is that we are all very different from each other, and that getting along is thus correspondingly difficult. The world is a very diverse...
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