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Hope in Hate Crime Laws? Lessons from India
It seems that we don’t currently exist in a time of hope. Perhaps more specifically, we don’t seem to be living in…
Does Free Speech Have a Future?
About the book The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression by Richard Moon, published by University of Toronto Press…
Project 2025: Authoritarian Agenda Disguised as Reform
The Heritage Foundation’s 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” lays out a coordinated effort to restructure federal governance by consolidating executive power and reshaping institutional norms along partisan lines.
Citizens United: Impact of Wealthy Donors and Dark Money
The effectiveness of legislative efforts to curb dark money, the role of…
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Is the US Using Beijing’s Authoritarian Playbook?
The world has watched in horror as US President Donald Trump sets about adopting an authoritarian playbook. To understand popular concern, it is important to…
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What Racism Really Costs Us All
Winner of the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award.
Climate-Friendly Food Choices: The Blue Plate
Winner of the 2025 IBPA Gold Award.
How Group Empathy Can Transform Politics and Society
Winner of the 2022 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award.
Patchwork Freedoms: How Enslaved People Won Their Rights
Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History (2023) and the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award (2023).
Rethinking Colonial Caribbean History
Winner of the 2022 James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History
Trump Battles Harvard Over Elitism and Public Subsidies
Trump challenges Harvard’s privileges, subsidies, and foreign student policies in a broader fight over merit, access, and public accountability.
The Religious Turn in Great Power Politics
Religion has returned to the global stage—not just as a source of identity or mobilization, but increasingly as a tool of statecraft...
Can Robots Love? Ethics at the Boundaries of the Human
Uncanny things have been happening in the borderlands between humans and non-humans. In August 2021 the Washington Post reported on…
What are conditions of violence ?
This article describes the concept of conditions of violence that I have recently introduced in a book under the same title...
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness
In the fourth century BCE, the Greek philosopher Aristotle labeled sleep “a border-land between living and not living.”
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Hope in Hate Crime Laws? Lessons from India
It seems that we don’t currently exist in a time of hope. Perhaps more specifically, we don’t seem to be…
Trump Battles Harvard Over Elitism and Public Subsidies
Trump challenges Harvard’s privileges, subsidies, and foreign student policies in a broader fight over merit, access, and public accountability...
What are conditions of violence ?
This article describes the concept of conditions of violence that I have recently introduced in a book under the same…
Understanding the Causes of War: Human Nature and History
The question “Why War?” is of fundamental importance in understanding the human past and the human future.
Trump’s Arctic Gambit: The Battle for Greenland
Remote and long-isolated Greenland has taken center stage in global diplomacy with America’s renewed ambition for an Arctic territorial expansion…
What Racism Really Costs Us All
Winner of the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award.
Can Robots Love? Ethics at the Boundaries of the Human
Uncanny things have been happening in the borderlands between humans and non-humans. In August 2021 the Washington Post reported on…
The Religious Turn in Great Power Politics
Religion has returned to the global stage—not just as a source of identity or mobilization, but increasingly as a tool…
Is the US Using Beijing’s Authoritarian Playbook?
The world has watched in horror as US President Donald Trump sets about adopting an authoritarian playbook. To understand popular…
How Obsession with China Warps U.S. Arctic Policy
The United States Department of Defense (DoD)’s 2024 Arctic strategy confirms that an unhealthy obsession with China has now clouded…
How Democracy, Media and Gender Equality Shape Abortion Views
Abortion remains one of the most contentious global social issues, with attitudes varying dramatically across nations. While individual characteristics like…
Black Women and the Making of Human Rights
Although I had been dabbling with the idea for quite some time, I started writing a book on Black women…
Understanding the Anti-Deportation Protests in Los Angeles
The protests that took place in Los Angeles in June were a direct response to the large-scale ICE raids happening…
Why Illiberalism Explains Changes in Today’s Social Order
Scholarship on populism has dominated the last two decades but is now retreating in the face of a new concept…