Alma Steingart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. She researches the interplay between politics and mathematical rationalities. Steingart’s second book manuscript, “Accountable Democracy: Mathematical Reasoning and Representative Democracy in America, 1920 to Now,” examines… Continue Reading
Nicholas Lemann is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and the Director of Columbia Global Reports, a book publishing venture, and Columbia World Projects, a new institution that implements academic research outside… Continue Reading
William Deringer is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research examines the history of those techniques and technologies of calculation that organize modern economic, financial, and political life. His work ranges widely… Continue Reading
Lorraine Daston is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and a permanent fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.… Continue Reading
Bernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary… Continue Reading