Distinguished Professor of sociology, Rutgers University and Director of the Institute for Research on Women

Politics

The United States Is Not A Christian Nation—And Should Not Be Remade Into One

Recent SCOTUS rulings not only threaten religious minorities, they contradict the intentions of the Founders

July 27, 2022 • by Arlene Stein and Phil Zuckerman

Recent SCOTUS rulings not only threaten religious minorities, they contradict the intentions of the Founders...

The United States Is Not A Christian Nation—And Should Not Be Remade Into One

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Trump’s Sadistic Spectacle of Winners and Losers

When Americans learned to idolize the rich and famous, they also came to secretly despise themselves

September 23, 2020 • by Arlene Stein

The answer: they revile losers and simultaneously fear becoming losers themselves. Trump watchers know that “loser” is the president’s favorite term of derision. According to the Trump Twitter Archive, 328 of Trump’s tweets castigate “losers.” They are an eclectic lot. Some are the president’s critics, on the right and the left, ...

Trump’s Sadistic Spectacle of Winners and Losers

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Trans Bodies/Trans Identities

Arlene Stein and Tey Meadow in dialogue

May 24, 2019 • by Arlene Stein and Tey Meadow

Tey Meadow is the author of Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press, 2018), an ethnographic and interview based study of the first generation of families actively facilitating transgender identities in youth. Arlene Stein is the author of Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity (Vintage 2019), which ...

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Surviving Trump

Trump year 1

December 7, 2017 • by Arlene Stein

In my household, Donald Trump’s reign of error has ushered in a stream of daily conniptions. He did what? He said that? These days, Cynthia and I exchange gasps of horror as we read the morning paper over coffee. We’ve instituted Trump-free zones, such as the bedroom, where we have a mutual ...