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List of Topics

Art, Architecture, Cinema, and Design
Economics and Finance
  • Philadelphia’s Economy: Past, Present, Future [Walter Licht]
  • The U.S. Economy in Historic Global Perspective [Walter Licht]
  • The Rise and Fall of American Trade Unionism [Walter Licht]
Health, Medicine, Biology
History, Culture, Literature
International Affairs, Politics, Policy, and Law 
  • American Politics in Historical Perspective [Walter Licht]
  • America’s Conflicting Constitutional Visions: The Quest for Common Ground [Rogers M. Smith]
  • America’s New Racial Divides: Protect versus Repair [Rogers M. Smith]
  • BDS: What is the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement [Ian Lustick]
  • The Crisis of Our Two Constitutions [Rogers M. Smith]
  • Gerrymandering and Redistricting Reform [Jack Nagel]
  • How to Slay the Gerrymander Now that SCOTUS Has Fled the Field of Battle [Jack Nagel]
  • Instant Runoff Voting [Jack Nagel]
  • Is the Constitution an Impediment to Democracy in America? [Jack Nagel]
  • Israel and the Palestinians: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality [Ian Lustick]
  • A Plan for Reforming the Pennsylvania General Assembly [Jack Nagel]
  • A Remedy for the Electoral College [Jack Nagel]
  • Toward Better Stories of American Identity [Rogers M. Smith]
  • Trends and Transformations in American Racial Politics [Rogers M. Smith]
  • U.S. Electoral Institutions that Detract from Democracy–and Reforms that Could Enable Us to Do Better [Jack Nagel]
  • What is a “paradigm” and how does it “shift?” [Ian Lustick]
  • What is “critical theory” and is it dangerous? [Ian Lustick]
  • Where did Zionism come from and where is it going? [Ian Lustick]
Sociology, Religion, and Philosophy
  • Islam: What Muslims Do And Do Not Believe [Roger Allen]
  • ISIS [Roger Allen]
  • Race and Gender Differentials in the U.S. Workplace: A Review of the Evidence on the Sources [Janice Madden]
  • Race and NFL Coaching: My Insider’s Story of the Implementation and Success of the Rooney Rule [Janice Madden]
  • Why is rationality so often the problem rather than the solution? [Ian Lustick]