Essay Reading Callimachus through comics April 17, 2020 Comics and illustration鈥攕iblings or cousins, related in so many ways鈥攁re deeply hybrid art forms. Read More
Essay Coronavirus got your class? Tips for surviving the transition to online learning April 15, 2020 Has your college just switched from classroom-based to online instruction? Do you feel like you have just been pushed off a cliff? Read More
Essay A short history of ice April 14, 2020 The day I visited Mt. Erebus in Antarctica was Instagram perfect: cold but sunny, and barely a breath of wind. Read More
Essay Quarantini: Cocktails to drink (alone) April 09, 2020 Have you heard about the latest cocktail, the Quarantini? It鈥檚 a regular martini, except you drink it alone. Read More
Essay The longest seder: A story of Haggadah April 08, 2020 The Haggadah, the text for the Passover seder meal, is supposed to teach the story of Exodus, primarily to the young. It does that poorly, for it assumes that readers are so well versed in the story that they鈥檇 prefer to dwell instead on ancient commentaries. Read More
Essay Grace: A keyword for now and then April 07, 2020 Which are the keywords of our time? Black, Brexit, Climate, Trans? New words, old words that have changed, words that have switched users and come to mean different things from before. Read More
Interview In Dialogue with Kathleen Graber and Eleanor Wilner: The ethical aspirations of poetry April 02, 2020 Throughout history, poets have rallied against autocracies, served as moral beacons in times of crisis, while others have intentionally avoided moral absolutes. We asked poets Kathleen Graber and Eleanor Wilner what ethical or moral aspirations and obligations they hope their own poems embody or enact. Read More
Essay Where poems may exist, now April 01, 2020 In the building across from mine, inside the top-center window, an American flag hangs vertically. I see it every day, every morning.聽My desk faces it.聽I face it.聽 Read More
Essay Remembering William B. Helmreich March 31, 2020 I am very sorry to be sharing the terrible news that our beloved Bill Helmreich, CCNY professor and prolific author, passed away on March 29, 2020. Read More
Interview By Design | The World According to Physics March 24, 2020 Every branch of knowledge seeks to provide an account of鈥攕omething: the past, the present, the mind, culture, institutions, social and physical phenomena. Read More
Essay The way we work: Old rules and new realities March 18, 2020 The way we work is not sustainable. Sherwin knows this well. He has twenty years of experience as a skilled information technology (IT) professional and is one of the many professionals and managers we interviewed in a Fortune 500 company we call TOMO. Read More
Essay COVID-19 crisis: What we owe each other March 17, 2020 What do we owe each other in this crisis? Let鈥檚 tackle one aspect of this question. A person might think as follows: If I know I am sick, then I understand why I am obligated to self-quarantine. Read More
Interview Rethinking how we view and manage cancer March 16, 2020 When we think of the forces driving cancer, we don鈥檛 necessarily think of evolution. But evolution and cancer are closely linked, for the historical processes that created life also created cancer.聽 Read More
Essay Me, myself, and Einstein March 14, 2020 Jimena Canales is the author of The Physicist and the Philosopher, which tells the remarkable story of how an explosive debate between two intellectual giants transformed our understanding of time and drove a rift between science and the humanities that persists today. This is the story of how she came to study the iconic physicist when she initially had no interest in 鈥渟uch a great man, or any great men.鈥� Read More
Essay Beware the Ides of March March 13, 2020 Imagine a rogue general, assigned only to guard the frontiers of his country鈥檚 remote provinces 鈥� but the authorities back in the capital tacitly approve of some adventurism. He goes on a rampage through neighboring territories, allying himself with certain ethnic groups in the region against others. Read More
