Social Sciences

As tariff policy in the U.S. continues to rapidly evolve, UC Berkeley faculty weighed in on how these changes could impact trade, the economy, employment and international relations.

At a recent panel discussion titled “The New Tariff Regime: How the Trump Administration Is Upending the Global Trade Order,” Economics Chair and Professor Andrés Rodriguez-Clare, Economics and Political Science Professor Barry Eichengreen and Berkeley Haas Professor Matilde Bombardini spoke about the impact of the Administration’s tariff policies....

Political analyst Yuval Levin will discuss how a deeper understanding of the Constitution can help unite Americans in a free society during the Berkeley Liberty Initiative's (BLI) 2025 Ambassador Frank E. Baxter Lecture this week.

Levin is director of social, cultural and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington, D.C.–based public policy think tank. He holds the Beth and Ravenel Curry Chair in Public Policy and is the founder and editor-in-chief of the...

For over two decades, the Goldmans have nurtured a community of scholars from disadvantaged backgrounds who might otherwise never have found their way to academic success. These “diamonds in the rough,” as Ruth calls them, often arrive feeling like imposters but graduate as leaders. With Ruth’s experience as a Holocaust survivor and first-generation college student guiding their approach, the Goldmans have created a program that offers funding, mentorship, emotional support, and lifelong connections. Most remarkably, their scholars have achieved a 100 percent graduation rate, and...

On March 27, President Trump signed “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” a directive mandating that the Smithsonian Institution and the Department of the Interior, which oversees national monuments, memorials and statues, rectify “divisive narratives that distort our shared history.” This is just one of several actions aimed at changing how arts and humanities organizations tell the story of the country’s past and present. For instance, the...