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September 2013
- September 19th 2013
- President Ira Katznelson warns that congressional restrictions on NSF funding will "degrade the quality of scholarship" in an Inside Higher Ed report from the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association →
- September 16th 2013
- Listen as Ira Katznelson, SSRC president, argues for a more imaginative progressive movement and a new New Deal on a netcast with America's Democrats →
July 2013
- July 17th 2013
- President Ira Katznelson reviews FDR and the Jews (Belknap Press) for the New Republic →
May 2013
- May 8th 2013
- Video: SSRC president Ira Katznelson talks with msnbc's Melissa Harris-Perry about his new book and New Deal resonance with contemporary US culture and politics →
- May 3rd 2013
- SSRC president Ira Katznelson's book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time opens Wonkblog's new book club at the Washington Post. First discussion: May 10 →
April 2013
- April 9th 2013
- In Sunday's New York Times Book Review, Kevin Boyle examines the "imposing scholarship" of president Ira Katznelson's Fear Itself →
March 2013
- March 18th 2013
- President Ira Katznelson discusses his book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time on WNYC radio's Leonard Lopate Show →
- March 7th 2013
- "Where Democracy Meets Fear": president Ira Katznelson describes for the Chronicle of Higher Education how the New Deal sheds light on today's politics →
February 2013
- February 13th 2013
- Just released: Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (Liveright/Norton), by president Ira Katznelson →
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