On 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…
Read MoreOn January 5th, 2025, IPK Fellow A.J. Bauer penned an opinion piece for The Philadelphia Inquirer titled “As Trump prepares for a second term, how should we remember Jan. 6 now?” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. According to the narrative proffered by right-wing media, Trump and the hundreds of other…
Read MoreOn December 18th, 2024, IPK Senior Fellow Natasha Dow Schüll‘s book Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas was recommended by D. Graham Burnett in The New York Times’ list of “62 books to read, recommended by influential people.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. Natasha Dow Schüll is a…
Read MoreOn December 4th, 2024, IPK Visiting Scholar Allison Pugh‘s book The Last Human Job was discussed in an opinion piece penned by Jessica Grose for The New York Times titled “Human Interaction Is Now a Luxury Good.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. Pugh’s timely book reveals the hidden ways that technology…
Read MoreOn December 2nd, 2024, IPK Fellow Maya Vinokour penned an opinion piece for The Nation titled “RFK Jr. Is Scary. His Online Fans Might Be Scarier.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. In light of this realignment, it is time to stop thinking about the prospect of Kennedy in charge of…
Read MoreOn October 17, 2024, IPK Fellow and Rebuild by Design Principal Henk Ovink published, alongside the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a flagship report titled “The Economics of Water: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good”. Read the abstract below, then click for the full report. The world faces a growing…
Read MoreOn September 12, 2024, The New Yorker announced their longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards. We are excited to announce that IPK Visiting Scholar Rowan Ricardo Phillips‘ most recent book Silver is among those nominated by the National Book Awards for Poetry. He is the only nominee this year who has been long-listed before,…
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