The Institute For Advanced Studies in Culture
Seeking to understand the changing frameworks
of meaning and moral order in today’s world in order
to address the most pressing challenges
facing people and institutions.
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The Hedgehog Review Fall Issue: Why America Needs a Third Founding
Our special fall issue introduces the Third Founding Initiative, an Institute project that calls for a renewal of engagement with America’s civic culture and institutions. Coming November 1.
IASC Opening Seminar with Christian Smith
“Religious Decline and Cultural Re-Enchantment: The Ongoing Transformation of the American Religious Field”
Hunter’s Democracy and Solidarity reviewed in the New Statesman
Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, reviewed James Davison Hunter’s Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis
Colloquies
Within an interdisciplinary community, the Institute conducts both theoretical and empirically grounded world-class research in major areas of social life. Our research is organized into four colloquies.
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The Hedgehog Review –
Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture
Published three times a year, The Hedgehog Review offers critical reflections on contemporary culture—how we shape it, and how it shapes us. Its interdisciplinary approach draws on the best scholarship and thought from the humanities and social sciences to explore and illuminate the puzzles, vexations, and dilemmas that characterize our late modern predicament.