Person

Craig Calhoun

Sociologist of the 1989 Beijing democracy movement and student politics under state power.

Why this matters

Calhoun reads protest authority against an empire that answers with tanks and amnesia.

book

Calhoun, Craig. *Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China*. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Book

How Communication and Moral Judgment Shape Leadership at Scale

An examination of what happens when signals of confidence are mistaken for legitimacy, and how that confusion distorts trust and decision-making.