Essay Getting to know Nat Turner February 03, 2020 Nat Turner is known to history as a thirty-year-old Virginia slave who led a bloody rebellion that resulted in the death of fifty-five whites, mostly women and children.聽 Beyond that, he is famous for being well-nigh unknowable.聽 Read More
Essay Donald and Winston at the Ministry of 鈥ˋlternative Facts January 31, 2020 Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John聽Rodden鈥檚 provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth.聽 Read More
Interview By Design | Sunnis and Shi鈥檃: A Political History January 31, 2020 A typographic cover design poses a unique challenge. Unlike book covers that avail themselves of rich imagery, an all-type cover has to articulate a book鈥檚 subject with a greater economy of means. Read More
Video Jessa Lingel on An Internet for the People January 28, 2020 Begun by Craig Newmark as an e-mail to some friends about cool events happening around San Francisco, craigslist is now the leading classifieds service on the planet. It is also a throwback to the early internet. Read More
Essay Why we need snarky book reviews鈥攁ccording to reviewers January 23, 2020 In 2010, the Huffington Post compiled a list of 鈥淭he Five Meanest Book Reviews Ever: Franzen, Foer, Larson, and more.鈥澛燭he chart included some real zingers. Read More
Interview Fei-Hsien Wang on Pirates and Publishers January 22, 2020 In聽Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time of profound sociopolitical changes. Read More
Essay Melancholy, remorse, and resignation in a year of Communist anniversaries January 17, 2020 Vanguard of the Revolution聽is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power.聽 Read More
Video Phillipa Chong on Inside the Critics鈥� Circle January 14, 2020 Taking readers behind the scenes in the world of fiction reviewing, Inside the Critics鈥� Circle explores the ways that critics evaluate books despite the inherent subjectivity involved, and the uncertainties of reviewing when seemingly anyone can be a reviewer. Read More
Essay What do you really know about gullibility? January 08, 2020 Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe鈥攁nd argues that we鈥檙e pretty good at making these decisions. Read More
Interview Robert Frank on Under the Influence January 07, 2020 Psychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But social influence is a two-way street鈥攐ur environments are themselves products of our behavior. Read More
Essay For the beauty of invisibility January 06, 2020 Human beings are naturally visual creatures. Our eyes, capable of counting single photons, have been optimized over evolutionary time to the very limits of the laws of physics. Read More
Reading List 7 books to start the new year December 26, 2019 Opening the page to another year can be a time for reflection, resolve, anticipation, and contemplation. For many of us, it鈥檚 a time for setting goals and committing to change. But in our increasingly hurried lives, it鈥檚 equally a time to consider undertaking the challenge of doing less. Read More
Reading List 快色直播 for readers thinking deeply about our planet December 20, 2019 From the thawing Arctic and the science of de-extinction to vanishing butterflies and the future of humanity, these books for readers who are thinking about the future of the planet. Read More
Essay Roger F. Pasquier on Birds in Winter December 20, 2019 The recent report from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society that there are today in the United States and Canada 29.4 billion fewer birds than the estimated 100 billion estimated as present fifty years ago is sobering news. Read More
Reading List By Design | The Lives of Great Religious 快色直播 December 17, 2019 Breath is an integral element of most religious traditions, scriptures, and practices. One recalls the narrative of creation in Genesis, the life-circulating force of prana in the Upanishads, or the drawing in and releasing of air that accompanies the dhikr, or remembrance of God, in Islamic devotional rites. Read More
