Interview Susan Mattern on The Slow Moon Climbs October 01, 2019 Are the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Historian Susan Mattern says yes, and聽The Slow Moon Climbs聽reveals just how wrong we have been. Read More
Interview Jennifer C. Lena on Entitled September 30, 2019 Two centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture鈥攎useums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras鈥攖o mirror European art. But today鈥檚 American arts scene has widened to embrace multitudes. Read More
Essay Eric D. Weitz on Human Rights Advances September 23, 2019 History is full of human rights tragedies and abuses, and it can be difficult to feel hopeful about the current state of affairs with those atrocities in mind. But there are success stories as well. Here, Eric Weitz shares a few exceptional human rights advances in recent history. Read More
Essay Searching for Spirit in Science Publishing September 19, 2019 Not long ago, I read an article in Scientific American about the power of words and how language shapes the brain. The article, written by a young Japanese postdoc in neuroscience, begins by invoking the Japanese word, kotodama, which can be translated to mean, literally, 鈥渨ord spirit.鈥� Read More
Interview Eleanor Wilner on Before Our Eyes September 18, 2019 A poet who engages with history in lyrical language, Elenor Wilner creates worlds that reflect on and illuminate the actual one, drawing on the power of communal myth and memory to transform them into agents of change. Read More
Interview Jennifer M. Morton on Moving Up Without Losing Your Way September 17, 2019 鈥嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�婾pward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. Read More
Interview Radcliffe Edmonds on Drawing Down the Moon September 12, 2019 What did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? Read More
Interview Eric D. Weitz on A World Divided September 03, 2019 From Greek rebels, American settlers, and Brazilian abolitionists in the nineteenth century to anticolonial Africans and Zionists in the twentieth, nationalists have confronted a crucial question: Who has the 鈥渞ight to have rights?鈥� Read More
Essay In Dialogue: Reframing how we think about bugs August 26, 2019 We live in a world dominated by insects. Sometimes it may seem to us that all of them are pests, but in reality, pest species are an infinitesimally small component of our biodiversity. Read More
Interview Sharon Marcus on The Drama of Celebrity August 19, 2019 Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive? Read More
Essay Celebrating Eid al-Adha August 11, 2019 The Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, commemorates the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son in obedience to God鈥檚 wishes鈥攁nd God鈥檚 mercy in providing a lamb to sacrifice instead after Ibrahim鈥檚 faith had been tested鈥攁nd also marks the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Read More
Interview Artemis Leontis on Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins August 05, 2019 This is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874鈥�1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Read More
Interview Hanna Gray on An Academic Life June 19, 2019 Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler鈥檚 Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a professor at Yale University. Read More
Essay Sketches from Red Meat Republic June 15, 2019 Joshua Specht puts people at the heart of Red Meat Republic鈥攖he big cattle ranchers who helped to drive the nation鈥檚 westward expansion, the meatpackers who created a radically new kind of industrialized slaughterhouse, and the stockyard workers who were subjected to the shocking and unsanitary conditions described by Upton Sinclair in his novel The Jungle. Read More
Essay Getting outside when day turns to night May 29, 2019 What鈥檚 the best way to commemorate a historic scientific experiment? Centenaries are popular, and one of the biggest is upcoming, the centenary of the 1919 eclipse observations that confirmed Einstein鈥檚 theory of general relativity. Read More
