How have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and c

Scrutinizes the contentious ideological feuds in American academia during the 1980s and 1990s

In Singing Like Germans, Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thurman brings to life the

This remarkable group of essays describes the "culture wars" that consolidated a new, secular ethos in mid-twentieth-century American academia and generated the