On 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,…
Read MoreOn January 4th, 2024, IPK Fellow Leif Weatherby penned an opinion piece for The Boston Globe titled “The Misguided Idea that Universities are Left-Wing Hotbeds.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. But here’s the simple truth: No elite university is driven by left-wing politics. It can seem otherwise, because over the…
Read MoreOn October 2nd, 2023, IPK Fellows Matthew Wolfe and Malcolm Araos penned an opinion piece for The New York Times titled “Climate Change Is Forcing Families Into a New Kind of Indefinite Hell.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. Without a body to bury and visit, a loved one’s death, however…
Read MoreWe are now accepting applications from those interested in joining the Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK) as a visiting scholar during the spring 2024 semester. We are open to working with a wide range of scholars from across the humanities and social sciences, with a preference for research projects aligned with one of our current…
Read MoreOn Tuesday, August 22, 2023, IPK Visiting Scholar Nikhil Goyal‘s upcoming book Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty was reviewed by the New York Times in an article entitled “Can You Get Out of Poverty Without Having to Beg?” Read a book summary below and the full article here. Kensington, Philadelphia, is…
Read MoreOn August 7th, 2023, Maya Vinokour, co-organizer of the IPK’s Global New Right Working Group, penned an opinion piece for the Boston Globe titled “Work Won’t Set You Free.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. The emphasis on skills in discussions of world-historical atrocities like American slavery and the Holocaust points…
Read MoreNinety percent of U.S. counties have experienced a federal climate disaster between 2011-2021, with some having as many as 12 disasters during that time. In 2021 alone, the U.S. experienced 20 separate billion-dollar climate disasters with over 688 direct or indirect fatalities. We can do better. Rebuild by Design worked with APTIM and iParametrics and an unbelievable team of engineers,…
Read MoreOn September 3rd, 2021, Rebuild by Design Director, Amy Chester, wrote an opinion piece on Daily News titled, “Keeping NYC’s Head Above Water: Lessons from the Deluge.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. Waking up to Thursday morning’s scenes of flooding and destruction was a shock to everyone, — including me,…
Read MoreOn April 26, 2021, IPK Director Eric Klinenberg penned a NY Times Op-ed titled, “Infrastructure Isn’t Really About Roads. It’s About the Society We Want.” Read the excerpt below, then click for the full article. Until recently, the question of what counts as infrastructure was an academic matter. Today, thanks to President Biden’s $2 trillion proposal to upgrade…
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