Social Research: An International Quarterly

15/11/2025

Nov. 15, 1969: Around 2 million people marched down to Washington, DC, for the Vietnam War Moratorium, the largest antiwar protest in US history at its time.

Read the Spring 1975 “Is Peace Possible?” issue, with articles like “Lost Illusions: The End of the Postwar World?” and “The Chances for Peace,” which reflect on the enduring struggle for peace as the war in Vietnam was ending.

🔗 https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40075936

13/11/2025

Are we the citizens we ought to be?

For this week’s read, dive into The Meaning of Citizenship from our 1974 issue. Scholars like Michael Walzer, Robert Nisbet, and Raymond Aron debate civic virtue, multinational identity, and the state's role.

🔗 https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40043617

11/11/2025

On , we honor all who served. Thank you, veterans, for your courage, dedication, and sacrifice.

Read Michael Walzer's "The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success)." He interrgates the theory's application in US conflicts like Vietnam and the 1991 Iraq bombing, examining if moral limits or civilian protection were upheld.

🔗 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/558540/

11/11/2025

German-Jewish political scientist & jurist Otto Kirchheimer was in 1905 in Heilbronn, Germany. Kirchheimer was a leading figure of the Frankfurt School, analyzing the decline of the rule of law and the rise of the "catch-all party" in modern democracy.

One of his notable contributions to Social Research is his article on politics and justice from our Winter 1955 issue.

🔗 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40982438

10/11/2025

As global leaders gather for the UN Climate Change Conference, be sure to revisit our Fall 2015 issue that begs the question: Climate Change Demands We Change. Why Aren't We?

This timely issue explores the barriers to effective action on climate change, going beyond the science to focus on human and systemic obstacles.

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09/11/2025

, November 9 is a doubly historic day for Germany: It marks not only the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 but also the proclamation of the Weimar Republic in 1918. For this , we look back at the Weimar Culture (1919–1932), our 1972 issue. Essays explore the polarized intelligentsia, modernist culture, utopia & apocalypse in literature, and parallels to US history.

🔗 https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40043607

08/11/2025

Economist and politician Frieda Wunderlich was on November 8, 1884. A pioneer in labor economics and social policy, she was a member of the city council of Berlin, her hometown, and the Prussian state parliament.

Forced to flee N**i Germany, she was the only woman faculty member of the University in Exile at the New School and of the founding editorial board of our journal. Wunderlich was also the first woman to serve as dean of a US graduate university, when in 1939 she was appointed to lead the University in Exile. Her analysis of the reversal of women's rights under the N**i regime, like her 1935 article "Women's Work in Germany," meticulously details the economic and political forces challenging female employment and equality.

06/11/2025

For this check out our 2008 issue “Collective Memory & Collective Identity”: 🔗 https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/28884

The authors, who include Aleida Assmann, Jeffrey Olick, Alan Trachtenberg, and William Hirst, among others, ask—and answer—important questions:
How are collective memories formed, shaped, reshaped, forgotten, and renewed? Are there constraints on the power of communities to restructure collective memories? And what is the relation between the memories of individuals and the collective memories held by the community?

05/11/2025

Today is the day: Our top 5 on the 5th!

📍Nick Haslam and Melanie J. McGrath, “The Creeping Concept of Trauma” (Fall 2020, reprinted Spring 2024)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/923123

📍Paul Chan, “The Potency of Art” (Spring 2016)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/620876

📍Albena Azmanova, “Free Speech or Safe Speech: The Neoliberal University's False Dilemma” (Summer 2025)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/961484

📍Lawrence D. Bobo and Victor Thompson, “Unfair by Design: The War on Drugs, Race, and the Legitimacy of the Criminal Justice System” (Summer 2006, reprinted Spring 2024)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/923110

📍Ai Weiwei and Ethan Cohen, “A Conversation” (Spring 2016)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/620877

04/11/2025

Colleges and universities in the US and worldwide continue to navigate the ever-changing and challenging landscape. Take (another) look at our most recent issue, “The Embattled University,” examining some of the most critical problems in higher ed.
🔗 https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54948

And here are snapshots of three essays from that issue—by Lisa Anderson, Nicholas Dirks, and David Hollinger, who presented their work at the New School for Social Research earlier this year.

03/11/2025

Our Fall 2025 issue, “Football Politics,” guest edited by Sean Jacobs, has gone to the printer.
Watch this space for an announcement later this month when it’s out!
In this issue:
📍 Gijsbert Oonk on national identity, migration, and eligibility for national football teams
📍 Brenda Elsey on gendered violence and corruption in South American football
📍 Ben Carrington on sport, politics, and contested identities in England
📍 T. R. Griffin on how Gulf football is framed within global discourse
📍 Chris Bolsmann on whether men’s professional soccer in the US is the proverbial sport of tomorrow
📍 Jung Woo Lee on women’s football and political propaganda in North Korea.. and much more

02/11/2025

For this gloomy , dive into the 2008 issue on “Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Denial.”

This issue explores martyrdom, self-sacrifice, and self-denial, contrasting the moral ideals of Socrates and Jesus with modern, politicized acts by groups ranging from jihadists and the IRA to suffragettes.

🔗 https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/28885