Flores Forbes is an urban planner, writer and former Columbia University administrator. He has written two books on race, radical urban politics and mass incarceration. His first book Will You Die With Me? My Life and the Black Panther Party… Continue Reading →

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 →