Politics

Bernard Harcourt, Visiting Professor in the School of Social Science, and Thomas Anthony Durkin have filed a lawsuit against President Trump's controversial executive order on immigration. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a pro bono client, Dr...

The following is a letter sent by Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, to the Institute Board of Trustees, Faculty and Emeriti, and Staff, on January 30, 2017. 

Those that did not foresee the likelihood or even the possibility of Donald Trump’s victory are going to find it hard to discipline themselves to a balanced projection of his forthcoming first term. To ardent liberals in the United States – not...

Americans have been using essentially the same rules to elect presidents since the beginning of the Republic. In the general election, each voter chooses one candidate; each state (with two current exceptions) awards all its Electoral College votes...

Klaus Larres, current Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member in the School of Historical Studies, joins a panel discussion hosted by The Heat, a CCTV-America program on political issues, to discuss the China-Germany trade relationship...

Klaus Larres, Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member in the School of Historical Studies, discusses how a visit to China by Germany’s economics minister highlighted a blunter approach to bilateral relations.

The prolonged honeymoon...

Kelefa Sanneh writes of former Member Joseph Carens's defense of a simple proposition––"immigrants belong"––in an untangling of the immigration debate in the New Yorker:

Carens makes a startling assertion toward the end of his book [The Ethics of...

“The enduring vitality of the reactionary spirit even in the absence of a revolutionary political program,” writes Mark Lilla (Member, Social Science, 1997–98), arises from the feeling that “to live a modern life anywhere in the world today, subject...

The New Yorker's John Lanchester reviews recent books on the threat of the euro by Nobel Prize-winning economist and former Visitor Joseph Stiglitz and its ideological and historical background by former Visitor Markus Brunnermeier.

Lanchester writes...

Glen Bowersock weighs in on the 2016 Election with a reflection on Cleon, the Donald Trump of fifth century B.C. Athens. Cleon’s fiery rhetoric made him exceptionally persuasive to the people, Bowersock writes:

Cleon's wealth, bluster, ignorance, and...