Society

Social Science and the Public Interest

Allow Offensive Speech --- Curb Abusive Speech?

Amitai Etzioni

Brexit and Westminster’s “Ulsterior Motives”

John Rodden

A Modest Proposal Regarding College Admissions

Frederick M. Hess

An Embarrassment of Riches: Admission and Ambition in American Higher Education

John R. Thelin

Wealth, Legacy and College Admission

Allan Ornstein

The Degradation of Merit

Joseph C. Hermanowicz

Admissions at the US Naval Academy: how the Military Brass Spend your Tax Dollars

Bruce Fleming

Preferences in College Admission

Nia E. Hulse

The College Admissions Racket

John F. Gaski

Merit and Luck

Jonathan Zimmerman

Language, Discourse, and Ostension: Selected Passages

Daniel B. Klein

The Scientific Cognition of African Nollywood Films

Ugonna C. Nkwunonwo, Vincent A. Onodugo, Ugochi A. Nkwunonwo, Emmanuel N. Chiemelu

Louisa Pinkham Holt, Public Sociology and Racial Desegregation

Lawrence T. Nichols

Society’s Books of Note

Bondage and Freedom: Why We Must Read Frederick Douglass

William E. Cain

Erika Lorraine Milam, Creatures of Cain: the Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America

Howard L. Kaye

Benjamin Balint, Kafka’s Last Trial. The Case of a Literary Legacy

Jens Kruse

Adam Kirsch, Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling

Edward Alexander

Christopher Adair-Toteff and Stephen Turner (eds.), The Calling of Social Thought. Rediscovering the work of Edward Shils

Alexander Ruser