Infrastructure Revolts!
There’s some chance that this will be our final Infrastructure Week. But before this very-online joke passes into the ether, it seems natural to think
James Feigenbaum
October 28, 2020
The persistence of identity
In August 1990, the Prime Minister of India, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, made a historic speech to implement affirmative action to lower castes in central government
Pavithra Suryanarayan
October 26, 2020
Life and Death During the Transition Depression
The New York Times published an interesting pair of reports on Tuesday. The first related a recent study in Health Affairs that documents a staggering,
Scott Gehlbach
October 23, 2020
Archival Silences and Historical Political Economy
Pandemics are political, as Alexandra Cirone highlighted in an earlier post. Motivated by the numerous examples of official corruption during the COVID-19 crisis, Francisco Garfias
Emily Sellars
October 21, 2020
Quantitative Social Science and the Holocaust
History is replete with violence, which casts a long shadow on contemporary attitudes, behavior, and institutions, as covered in our earlier posts. The Holocaust is
Volha Charnysh
October 19, 2020
The Great Northward Migration and Social Transformation, Part II
The Great Migration reached its peak in the years between 1940 and 1970, when decadal outmigration rates from the US South among Blacks surpassed 10%.
Vicky Fouka
October 16, 2020