Essay The Humboldt connection between nature and American art May 21, 2020 An exhibition titled聽Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture聽will be shown at the Smithsonian American Art Museum located at 8th聽& F Streets NW in Washington, DC, opening in 2020. Read More
Essay Robert DiYanni and Anton Borst on The Craft of College Teaching May 19, 2020 Teaching is more than a job or a career; it is a profession and a calling. It is a craft that can be mastered over time with practice and persistence. Read More
Interview Hanoch Gutfreund and J眉rgen Renn on Einstein on Einstein May 18, 2020 At the end of World War聽II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for the Library of Living Philosophers. The resulting book was his uniquely personal聽Autobiographical Notes, a classic work in the history of science that explains the development of his ideas with unmatched warmth and clarity. Read More
Interview By Design | The Papers of Thomas Jefferson May 17, 2020 In a ceremony at the Library of Congress on May 17, 1950, President Harry S.聽Truman accepted the first volume of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, an ambitious project that would span multiple decades and vastly different modes of production. Read More
Interview Forrest Stuart on Ballad of the Bullet May 14, 2020 Amid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are developing creative online strategies to make ends meet. Using such social media platforms as YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, they鈥檙e capitalizing on the public鈥檚 fascination with the ghetto and gang violence. Read More
Essay From Jack-in-the-pulpit to Featherfoil: An appreciation of wildflower names May 13, 2020 Although every plant species known to science has an official scientific name, it is their common names that most people use when speaking of local wildflowers. Read More
Essay Escape from quarantine May 12, 2020 Like many professional intellectuals, books were my original escape. I was a strange child with abrasive manners, and real life was lonely and chaotic. I read ceaselessly, anything I could get my hands on. Read More
Interview Making motherhood work in the age of COVID-19 May 08, 2020 This Mother鈥檚 Day weekend, Christie Henry, Director of 快色直播 talks聽with聽Caitlyn Collins about 鈥楳aking Motherhood Work鈥� in the age of COVID鈥�19. Read More
Interview J. David Velleman on On Being Me May 06, 2020 We鈥檝e all had to puzzle over such profound matters as birth, death, regret, free will, agency, and love. How might philosophy help us think through these vital concerns? Read More
Essay Cicero, friendship, and social distancing May 04, 2020 The best friend of the Roman politician Marcus Cicero was Titus Pomponius, also known as Atticus since he spent many years living in Athens to escape the political chaos and partisan bickering of republican Rome. Read More
Essay How to drink (at home) April 30, 2020 Is there an art to drinking alcohol? Can drinking ever be a virtue? The Renaissance humanist and neoclassical poet Vincent Obsopoeus (ca. 1498鈥�1539) thought so. Read More
Interview By Design | Oddly Modern Fairy Tales April 24, 2020 Fairy tales exert a keen influence on the collective imagination. By turns entertaining and frightening, didactic and illuminating, they are the stuff of dreams, but also of reality. Read More
Essay When 鈥楾ake Your Child to Work Day鈥� is every day April 23, 2020 Take your child to work day has been a festive time at PUP in recent years, with a free popup kids bookstore and 鈥榦pen office hours鈥� with our director Christie Henry, who provides the kids of PUP with a generous supply of publishing advice and donuts. Read More
Interview Justin Farrell on Billionaire Wilderness April 21, 2020 Billionaire Wilderness聽takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today鈥檚 richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face. Read More
Essay The case for hierarchy April 20, 2020 Imagine a country with no social hierarchies: let鈥檚 call it Equality. People in Equality treat each others as equals regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, religion, family background, class, or position in the workplace. Read More
