American Jewish History First paragraph: From the early 1880s until the outbreak of the Great War, twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States. Most of them came from southern and eastern Europe rather than …
Month: March 2025
Real Utopias book wins the 2025 William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize
The book Democratizing the Corporation: The Bicameral Firm and Beyond has been awarded the 2025 William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize. Joel Rogers is one of the book’s editors, along with Isabelle …
Cities and Their Neighbors: Examining Rural-Urban Polarization on A Local Scale by Benny Witkovsky (2025)
Urban Affairs Review Abstract: In recent years, the rural–urban divide has become one of the defining features of American partisan politics. Usually conceptualized as a regional phenomenon, discussions of the rural–urban divide often overlook geographic …
Language capital and grade repetition: evidence from nationally-representative survey data in India by Anirudh Tagat and Bijoyetri Samaddar (2025)
Education Economics Abstract: This paper studies the links between discrepancies in the language spoken at home and the medium of instruction at school and grade repetition using nationally representative sample surveys in India. Our sample …
Saving the Wild or Saving the Cowboy? Cultural Conflict between the Old and Nouveau West by John Canfield (2024)
Rural Sociology Abstract: In North Central Montana, a land-based conflict centered on the environmental organization American Prairie sparked the formation of the “Save the Cowboy, Stop the American Prairie Reserve” Facebook page, attracting posts and …
New York Times quotes Max Besbris about wildfire recovery in Los Angeles
How do you build back after disaster, and how does wealth impact the decisions made and the speed of rebuilding? Max Besbris was quoted in a New York Times article about the Los Angeles wildfires …