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Eric Klinenberg
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Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.*

Eric M. Klinenberg is an American sociologist and a scholar of urban studies, culture, and media. He is currently Helen Gould Shepard Professor in Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. Klinenberg is best known for his contributions as a public sociologist. .. more

Political science 35%
Sociology 24%

The research articles we produce with AI can now be reviewed by AI with nearly human-level performance, assigned to students who use AI to submit term papers similar to those done by humans, which can then be graded by AI too.

Or, you know, we could just read, write, and think with our brains.

Reposted by Claudia Sahm

Wendy Edelberg, former chief economist for the Congressional
budget Office, explains why keeping immigrants out of the US will not create a booming labor market for those already here. On the contrary, she writes, “making America less hospitable to immigrants will eventually make America poorer.”
Opinion | We’re Seeing What a No-Immigration Economy Looks Like
www.nytimes.com

People outside NYC starting to understand just how good Zohran Mamdani is at politics.

Trump now says he’s excited about NYC’s future and reminded everyone that he and Bernie Sanders have a lot in common - including supporters.

The great sociologist Kai Erikson has died at 94. Kai is known for his pioneering research on the impact of disasters on communities. His book, *Everything in its Path,* remains a landmark contribution to social science and a model to all of us who work to understand the human costs of crises. RIP

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan

Harvard's right-wing student magazine defends itself from charges that it invoked lines from Hitler by insisting that it did not intentionally use Nazi language, but came upon this "blood and soil" thinking organically. In other words, it's how young conservatives see things now.

Take that in.

Reposted by Éric Klinenberg

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It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:

1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.