Ira Katznelson

Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University.

The Blindness of Colorblindness

Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.

  • Ira Katznelson

Anxieties of Democracy

Democracy no longer has rivals, but its fairness and effectiveness face skepticism.

  • Ira Katznelson
with responses from
  • Hélène Landemore
  • Larry Kramer
  • Michael Gecan
  • David M. Kennedy
  • Martin O’Neill
  • Mark Schmitt
  • Nadia Urbinati
  • Rick Perlstein
  • Melissa S. Williams
  • Mohammad Fadel
  • Alex Gourevitch
  • Michael C. Dawson
  • Richard Trumka

Final Response to Anxieties of Democracy

  • Ira Katznelson

Du Bois for the 1990s

William Julius Wilson has provided a searing analysis of inner-city collapse. Can we rise to his challenge?

  • Ira Katznelson
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