Member News Digest — September 17, 2026

^{Peter Katzenstein, photo by Robert Barker for Cornell University}

Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields. Those accomplishments don’t end upon induction, however. In this week’s APS Member News Digest, read about the James Madison Award, the “Gen Z stare,” and a new book on “evil.”

• Peter Katzenstein (APS 2009) was honored with the James Madison Award from the American Political Science Association
• Robert Putnam (APS 2005) weighed in on the phenomenon of the “Gen Z stare” for The Washington Post
• The New York Times calls Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era by Susan Neiman (APS 2018) “bracing” and “a polemical guide to the current moment”