Rebuild by Design’s latest report, Selling Flood Risk: NYC, Reveals the Urgent Need for Better Education and Risk Disclosure in Housing Market May 30, 2024 – In a stark revelation of the escalating climate crisis, Rebuild by Design’s latest analysis of housing and climate data reveals that homes sold in New York City in 2023 – worth…
Read MoreOn May 15th, 2024, IPK Fellow Leif Weatherby penned an opinion piece for The Boston Globe titled “The real crisis in higher education.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. A deep anti-intellectualism has settled in across the political spectrum in our country. If the events of the last few months have…
Read MoreOn May 6, 2024, Eric Klinenberg appeared on the The Majority Report to discuss his new book 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed, which is now available in stores. Read the description below and then click to watch the video. Watch the episode here.
Read MoreOn May 10th, 2024, IPK’s Associate Director Michael Koncewicz was quoted in a piece for The Guardian by John Semley titled “‘Police raids are nothing new’: student protesters from 1960s see history repeating itself” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. The New York University historian Michael Koncewicz notes that the anti-Vietnam…
Read MoreOn March 17th, 2024, IPK Fellows Maya Vinokour and Leif Weatherby were featured in an article by Politico titled “In on the Joke: The Comedic Trick Trump Uses to Normalize His Behavior.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. Yes, Trump’s funny. “Super funny,” Corey Lewandowski, one of his 2016 campaign managers,…
Read MoreOn March 14, 2024, New York University posted a video featuring IPK Director Eric Klinenberg discussing his new book 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed, which is now available in stores. Watch the video here.
Read MoreOn March 11th, 2024, IPK’s Associate Director Michael Koncewicz penned an opinion piece for Jacobin titled “Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, Capitol Hill Antiwar Lobbyists” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. As a new antiwar movement calls for a cease-fire in Gaza and mobilizes Americans to oppose a war funded and…
Read MoreOn February 13, 2024, Eric Klinenberg appeared on the The Chris Hayes Podcast to discuss his new book 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed, which is now available in stores. Read the description below and then click to listen to the podcast. Listen to the podcast here.
Read MoreOn January 31st, 2024, Eric Klinenberg, Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge, penned an opinion piece for The New York Times titled “We Were Wrong About What Happened to America in 2020” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. In other ways, 2020 seems like another lifetime. The pandemic ended; we went…
Read MoreOn January 10th, 2024, IPK Fellow Maya Vinokour penned an opinion piece for Jacobin titled “Beware Lifestyle Fascism” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. In a world of fraying metanarratives, fragmented sociality, and rule by unaccountable oligarchy, the only remaining choices seem to be consumer ones. In the Bill Clinton era,…
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