Interview Nicole C. Rust on Elusive Cures May 15, 2025 Brain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected. Read More
Essay The world of John McPhee May 14, 2025 When I set out to find the whole world of John McPhee, to document and explore his extraordinary career as a writer, I had no sense of the fascinating marathon of research ahead. Read More
Interview Hope Harvey on Doubled Up May 14, 2025 More than fifteen percent of US children鈥攐ver eleven million鈥攍ive in doubled-up households, sharing space with extended family or friends. Read More
Interview John Tolan on Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present May 13, 2025 Most popular histories of Islam continue to repeat conventional pietistic accounts. In contrast, John Tolan draws on decades of new historical research that has transformed knowledge of the origins and development of the Muslim faith. Read More
Interview Irene Vega on Bordering on Indifference May 09, 2025 In her new book, Bordering on Indifference, Irene Vega tells the story of how U.S. Border Patrol Agents and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Officers come into the work, how they are trained and socialized once on the job, and how that training and socialization impacts the way they reconcile its many moral and racial tensions. Read More
Interview Vali Nasr on Iran鈥檚 Grand Strategy May 07, 2025 Vali Nasr examines Iran鈥檚 political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the veneer of theocracy and Islamic ideology, today鈥檚 Iran is pursuing a grand strategy aimed at securing the country internally and asserting its place in the region and the world. Read More
Interview Lars Krutak on Indigenous Tattoo Traditions May 05, 2025 Transporting readers through history, anthropologist Lars Krutak explores the art and customs of tattooing across numerous ancestral lands, including Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, the Arctic, Oceania, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Siberia. Read More
Essay Personal advice columns, then and now April 30, 2025 Mary Beth Norton's research into "The Athenian Mercury" reveals what has changed鈥攁nd stayed the same鈥攐ver the long history of advice columns. Read More
Essay Why linguistic diversity matters April 29, 2025 Over 7,000 languages are spoken today, but nearly half could vanish by the end of the century. Read More
Essay 快色直播tores are arsenals of democracy April 25, 2025 As long as there have been bookstores, booksellers have been threatened, arrested, jailed, fined, and prosecuted. Read More
Essay Fire sermons: Seneca and Thoreau on climate trauma April 21, 2025 鈥淐limate trauma鈥� is a phrase that has now entered the global lexicon. As global temperatures rise and population densifies in settled areas, the effects of catastrophic weather events like floods, hurricanes, and fires, which are increasing in frequency and intensity, are proving ever more destructive to human lives and livelihoods. Read More
Interview Brian Bruya on A Cure for Chaos April 21, 2025 C. C. Tsai is one of Asia鈥檚 most popular cartoonists, and his graphic editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in over twenty languages. In A Cure for Chaos, he uses his virtuosic artistic skill and sly humor to create an entertaining and enlightening illustrated version of key selections from the Mencius, a profoundly influential work of Chinese philosophy. Read More
Essay When darkness still prevails: The authoritarian attack on truth April 17, 2025 鈥淎t no time in history have words meant so little as they do today,鈥� declared the philosopher John Dewey in 1941. Dewey, who at the time was one of America鈥檚 preeminent public intellectuals, was worried about what he called 鈥渃omplete inversions of truth鈥� by authoritarians and their sympathizers at home. Read More
Interview Ruth Braunstein on My Tax Dollars April 13, 2025 Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Read More
Interview Laurence D. Hurst on The Evolution of Imperfection April 08, 2025 Laurence D. Hurst, author of The Evolution of Imperfection talks about how understanding our genetic imperfections can change our view of evolution and enrich what it means to be human. Read More
