Hello and welcome to this edition of the Brandeis University podcast, “The Take: Big Ideas Explained in Under 5 Minutes,” where experts explain core concepts of their research in under five minutes.

The way you look helps determine how easy your life will be. In today’s world, privilege is a marker. It is a key that can gain you access to opportunities, choices, and doors that may be denied to ...

Automatic Writing's October 2013 piece locating intersectionality as a firm and necessary component of class struggle politics, and identifying the risk many critics of intersectionality fall into of ...

“Here’s the latest in the assault on liberal democracy,” writes Andrew Sullivan, as he decries the recent student shut-down of controversial author Charles Murray’s talk at Middlebury College earlier ...

Intersectionality is easily one of the most powerful forces driving American political debate and policy in 2025. And because of its higher-level academic origins, the majority of voters on either ...