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
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Fellows’ Corner| 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
Dietram A. Scheufele, our 2024 Harold Lasswell Fellow, adds to our series of special Fellows’ Corner essays on the “State of the Nation.” This series expands on our 2024 fellows’ induction remarks in response to the following prompt: “Professionally, how would you respond to claims that the American experiment is in decline?”| AAPSS
This month’s Fellows’ Corner is written by demographer and sociologist Rogelio Sáenz, our 2023 Ernest W. Burgess Fellow.| AAPSS
Late last November, the AAPSS welcomed eight new fellows to the Academy and invited each of them to speak to whether, given the extraordinary political circumstances we currently face in the United States, “the American experiment is in decline.” We’ve asked each of them to write brief essays that expand upon the points that they made in their induction remarks.| AAPSS
This month’s Fellows’ Corner is written by sociologist and demographer Rogelio Sáenz, our 2023 Ernest W. Burgess Fellow.| AAPSS
This month, the Dispatch will introduce a new regular feature, the “Fellows’ Corner.” In addition to posts from our president and executive director, the AAPSS will periodically publish pieces by our fellows reflecting on their work, their inductions, and more. This first essay comes from Jennifer Lee, our 2023 Samuel A. Stouffer Fellow.| AAPSS