On October 16, 2025, IPK Fellow Maya Vinokour penned an opinion piece for The Nation titled “What Was the Cybertruck?” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. The Cybertruck was not intended to be unwieldy and repellent, but had that greatness thrust upon it. A billionaire’s vanity project, it substitutes a projection…
Read MoreOn July 14th, 2025, IPK’s Director Eric Klinenberg was featured in a reflection of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave by CBS News. He discussed Chicago city leadership during the heat wave and its consequences. Read the piece here.
Read MoreOn April 19, 2025, IPK Fellow Maya Vinokour penned an opinion piece for The Boston Globe titled “The rise of RFK Jr. is a wake-up call for out-of-touch liberals.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. One standard liberal response to figures like Kennedy has been fact-checking. That tactic won’t change anyone’s mind….
Read MoreOn April 25th, 2025, IPK’s Associate Director Michael Koncewicz was featured in a segment of On the Media by WNYC. He discussed the fight over who gets to tell the story of Watergate and the years-long conservative movement to rehabilitate Richard Nixon’s image. Listen to the segment here.
Read MoreOn March 24th, 2025, IPK’s Associate Director Michael Koncewicz penned an opinion piece for Time titled “The Alarming Effort To Rewrite the History of Watergate.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. The effort to rescue Nixon’s legacy has now merged with a broader rejection of the liberal establishment, democratic institutions, and…
Read MoreOn February 24, 2025, IPK Fellow Maya Vinokour penned an opinion piece for The Nation titled “Vampire Weekend.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. This techno-solutionist approach to health and wellness epitomizes what Frankfurt School philosopher Max Horkheimer, writing in the 1940s, called “instrumental rationality,” a form of reason that never…
Read MoreOn February 11, 2025, IPK Fellow Leif Weatherby penned a guest essay for The Point titled “Permanent Decline: The long, slow end of Aaron Rodgers, the American man, and U.S. empire.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. In that moment after four whole plays in one game in 2023, that moment…
Read MoreThis month, IPK Fellow A.J. Bauer, along with Anthony Nadler, published an article in Journalism Studies titled “Competing for Cultural Authority: Journalism Studies Must Account for the Right.” Read the abstract below, then click for the full article. Recent technological and political developments have caused researchers to reevaluate journalists’ relevance vis a vis other forms…
Read MoreFor their February 13th, 2025 issue, IPK Fellow Caitlin Zaloom penned a piece for The New York Review titled “Too Close for Comfort” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. The need for social health to be measured and included in decision-making has grown all the more clear in the twenty-first century….
Read MoreOn January 18th, 2025, IPK’s Associate Director Michael Koncewicz joined “NewsNation Live Weekend” to discuss President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration and a recap of his first back in 2017. Watch the full video here. Additionally, Koncewicz was quoted in a piece for Salon by Cara Michelle Smith titled “Nixon paved the way for Trump’s “new…
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