Essay The world of Martin Luther May 25, 2021 The nineteenth century commemorated the Protestant hero Martin Luther with giant statues on a host of town squares across Germany. Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Spirit of Green May 24, 2021 Start listening to The Spirit of Green by William D. Nordhaus鈥攁n innovative account of how and why 鈥済reen thinking鈥� could cure many of the world鈥檚 most serious problems. Read More
Podcast After Callimachus: Poems May 19, 2021 Callimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Romans and Greeks, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate lyric poems, hymns, epigrams, and short stories in verse have gone without a contemporary poetic champion, until now. Read More
Essay I spent a year and a half at a 鈥榥o-excuses鈥� charter school 鈥� this is what I saw May 19, 2021 Charter schools are 30 years old as of 2021, and the contentious debate about their merits and place in American society continues. Read More
Essay From equal rights to full rights May 18, 2021 The Equal Rights Amendment, introduced in 1923, has resurfaced in 2021 after a long sleep.聽Whether it becomes part of the US Constitution is anyone鈥檚 guess, as is the practical effect of such a change given the conservative tilt of the Supreme Court. Read More
Video How the giving habits of the super鈥憆ich affect the rest of us May 16, 2021 It鈥檚 the time of year when our personal finances come to the forefront, but not many Americans are aware that the spending and giving habits of the super-rich are having a direct impact on public provision and policy. Read More
Essay Correcting the wealth gap May 14, 2021 With the tax season in full swing, it is wort reflecting on the purposes that taxes serve in society. One is state revenue; ensuring the acceptance of state issued currency in which taxes must be paid is another; and addressing inequality the third. Read More
Interview Navigating college as a first generation student: An interview with Alvina Atkinson May 12, 2021 There is a startling disparity in the number of female math PhDs and tenured professors, as evidenced by the most recent research from the American Mathematical Society showing the percentage of men vs. women who earned a PhD in Math and are tenured. Read More
Essay Jenny White on the graphic novel and the complicated roots of political violence May 10, 2021 I first arrived in Turkey as a young woman in 1975 to study at Ankara鈥檚 Hacettepe University, unaware that Turkey was experiencing a low-level civil war. Read More
Essay Mothers, by default May 07, 2021 A few weeks ago, I sat down with a mom I鈥檒l call Erica to talk about how she and her family have navigated the challenges of this past pandemic year. Read More
Essay The trees in your life May 07, 2021 The Earth supports about sixty thousand tree species.聽I wonder, how many of them would you come across in an average day? Read More
Essay How Hume anticipated Darwin May 06, 2021 It鈥檚 a great irony that many still believe Darwin鈥檚 theory of evolution was a sudden, startling revelation rather than itself being the fruit of the evolution of ideas. Read More
Essay 鈥榊ou try not to eat鈥�: What joblessness means for low鈥憄aid women in Pennsylvania May 04, 2021 Losing your job is difficult for anyone, but for working-class women without savings it is even harder.聽Sarah Damaske聽talked to women in low-wage jobs in Pennsylvania who struggled to afford to feed their families or pay for childcare so they could look for work. Read More
Podcast American feminists and the global fight for democratic equality May 03, 2021 Reclaiming social democracy as one of the central threads of American feminism, Dorothy Sue Cobble offers a bold rewriting of twentieth-century feminist history and documents how forces, peoples, and ideas worldwide shaped American politics. Read More
Reading List 快色直播 for getting outside May 02, 2021 Being outdoors improves well-being in myriad ways, and these selections from 快色直播 Nature range far and wide in their coverage of the natural world including award-winning photographic field guides, large-format reference books, and authoritative field guides. Read More
