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
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
Interview Maria LaMonaca Wisdom on How to Mentor Anyone in Academia April 07, 2025 Mentoring is integral to how academics are formed and what trajectories their careers will take. Yet until recently, no one was trained to do it, and many academics have ingrained assumptions about mentorship that no longer fit the lives, needs, and aspirations of mentees. Read More
Essay Raising the dead April 04, 2025 My fascination, indeed, my love of, death began in my childhood when my mum took me to the British Museum to see the mummies. Read More
Essay Unlocking the Middle East riddle April 03, 2025 The Middle East is a tinderbox. The convergence of military, economic, social and geopolitical crises makes this moment, one of the most dangerous periods in the modern history of the region, an inflection point. Read More
Interview Daniel Abel and Sophie Maycock on Shark: The Illustrated Biography March 20, 2025 Written by two experienced shark educators, scientists, and conservationists, "Shark: The Illustrated Biography" blends engaging profiles of selected species with captivating illustrations to offer an unparalleled exploration of the life and times of the shark. Read More
Interview Ideas and inspiration from 快色直播 2024 fellows March 17, 2025 Every year, PUP鈥檚 Publishing Fellowship program supports two fellows annually in full-time, salaried positions where they are supervised and mentored by hosts in their respective departments and are offered a variety of meaningful opportunities to engage with colleagues across the Press. Read More
Essay Pi Day with John Horton Conway, revisited March 12, 2025 Over several years, while writing Genius at Play, my biography of the always wondrous yet often pernickety one-of-a-kind mathematician John Horton Conway, I was plied by my subject with a smorgasbord of tales. Read More
Essay Content moderation is a policy problem, not just a platform problem March 11, 2025 We have all witnessed the familiar cycle. Extremist or hateful content surfaces online and sparks public outrage鈥攑erhaps a stream of violent propaganda, a wave of conspiracy theories, or explicit calls for harm. Read More
Interview Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy on Memory Lane March 05, 2025 We tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains. In fact, we construct and reconstruct our memories every time we attempt to recall them. Read More
Interview Ian Stewart on The Celts: A Modern History March 03, 2025 A new history of the Celts that reveals how this once-forgotten people became a pillar of modern national identity in Britain, Ireland, and France. Read More
Essay Celebrating Bird Photographer of the Year February 22, 2025 Photographers from "Bird Photographer of the Year: Collection 9" tell the stories behind their selected shots. Read More
Essay Paradoxical possibility: embracing anti-racism鈥檚 contradictions February 19, 2025 Anti-racism work is paradoxical. It requires the capacity to straddle contradictory yet interdependent realities that seem irreconcilable but must and can both be navigated. Read More
