The Dark Side of Politics: Essays on the Unpleasant Realities of Political Life

The Dark Side of Politics: Essays on the Unpleasant Realities of Political Life

This series of scholarly chapters explores the unpleasant realities of modern politics – and American politics in particular – by examining how self- interest, war, violence, deception and institutional failure […]


The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, the Right, and the Jews

The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, the Right, and the Jews

“This book could not be timelier. Benjamin Ginsberg uses his deep knowledge of Jewish history to show that Jews, long identified with leftwing causes, in many ways, are not natural […]


Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

In 2016, even as Ohio helped deliver victory to presidential candidate Donald Trump, Cincinnati voters also passed a ballot initiative for universal preschool. The margin was so large that many […]


The State of the European Union: Volume 7: With US or Against US? European Trends in American Perspective

The State of the European Union: Volume 7: With US or Against US? European Trends in American Perspective

This is the seventh volume in the highly influential State of the European Union series, produced under the auspices of the European Union Studies Association. This volume provides major new insights on […]


The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics

The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics

America’s political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes readers from the rise of […]


Money Has No Value

Money Has No Value

We need a new theory of money. The still-dominant theory of money as taught in intro textbooks is 100+ years old, and for almost that long we have known that […]


Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft

Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft

Based on the theoretical reconstruction of neglected post-WWI writings and political action of W. E. B. Du Bois, this volume offers a normative account of transnational cosmopolitanism. Pointing out the […]


Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism

Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism

Democracy and Empire theorizes the material basis of popular sovereignty via the Black radical tradition. Popular sovereignty contains an affective attachment to wealth, secured through collective agreements to dominate others, […]


Squalor

Squalor

with Daniel Renwick British society is increasingly divided into the haves and the have-nots. Housing epitomizes this division with spiralling rents, exorbitant prices, lack of council provision, poorly maintained stock, […]


Segregated Time

Segregated Time

When Martin Luther King Jr. argued on behalf of civil rights he was told that he was “too soon.” Today, those demanding reparations for slavery are told they are “too […]