This year, the whole world watches as Americans will choose a new president. In order to do so, the political preferences of millions of Americans must be aggregated in order to decide a single winner, the next President. This is known as a social choice and there are many ways to accomplish the task. However, many of these ways are dramatically fl…

Social scientists, for various purposes are interested in measuring the collective opinions of a society involving a range of issues, often in order to make policy recommendations and to predict the outcomes of elections and referendums. The most prominent technique for discovering the public opinion is the sample survey, where a subset of individu…

Money facilitates trade of goods and services and powers the global economy in many ways, ranging from a child’s lunch money to the world of international finance. Most discussions of money focus on the study of it from a rational standpoint, using the study of economics and statistics to decipher the relationship between currency and value and to …

This episode's guest is Dr. Diana Lemberg, Assistant Professor of History at Lingnan University. Professor Lemberg is an expert in the history of freedom of information and its relationship to the United States’ global engagements after 1945. Her book Barriers Down: Freedom of Information and American Power is forthcoming from Columbia University P…

In this first episode, I sit down with Dr. Liz Jackson, Assistant professor of Education at the University of Hong Kong and the author of Muslims and Islam in US Education: Reconsidering Multiculturalism. Professor Jackson has recently presented work about Last Week Tonight with John Oliver that explores the use of humor in moral education. Dr. Jac…