President’s Corner: Self-Inflicted Wounds
By Kenneth Prewitt, AAPSS President| AAPSS
By Marta Tienda| AAPSS
Robert K. Merton| AAPSS
By Marta Tienda, AAPSS President| AAPSS
Recently, Amanda Gorman’s magnificent poem “The Hill We Climb,” famously delivered at President Biden’s inauguration, was placed on a restricted book list in Florida. It joins a growing list of titles that have been removed from school libraries, and its restriction is a deeply dismaying example of censorship for the sake of political expedience. PEN America, an organization that defends free expression and literature, has identified over 4,000 titles that either have been removed fro...| AAPSS
I was in Buenos Aires when I learned about the brutal, unprovoked attack by Hamas on innocent Israelis along the border of the Gaza Strip. Retaliation would follow—of that, I was sure. In early 1994, I spent three months in Tel Aviv shortly after the first intifada (~1987–1993) in which Palestinians used random acts of violence to protest Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. During my three-month stay, an American Israeli physician opened fire on Palestinian Muslims praying...| AAPSS
By Marta Tienda, AAPSS President| AAPSS
by Marta Tienda| AAPSS
By Marta Tienda, AAPSS President| AAPSS
President’s Corner: Social Science (and the AAPSS) in Uncharted Waters| www.aapss.org
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The AAPSS Announces Sheldon Danziger as New President| www.aapss.org
President’s Corner: Social Science (and the AAPSS) in Uncharted Waters| www.aapss.org
Editor’s Note: Marta Tienda’s time as president of the AAPSS will conclude this summer, making this her final President’s Corner essay. The AAPSS board and staff thank her for her service to the Academy and wish her the best in her future endeavors.| AAPSS
