This book explores how the social sciences became entangled with the global Cold War. While duly recognizing the realities of nation states, national power, and

How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the

Examines the politics of intellectual life during the Cold War, and the effects of U.S. intelligence and propaganda agencies on academic culture and intellectua

During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The prog

Numerous popular and scholarly accounts have exposed the deep impact of patrons on the production of scientific knowledge and its applications. Shaky Foundation