Podcast Listen in: Furious Minds February 18, 2026 Furious Minds tells the story of the thinkers of the New Right—and their powerful assault on American freedoms, values, and ideals. Read More
Podcast Listen in: One Man’s Freedom February 17, 2026 Nicholas Buccola tells the compelling story of Goldwater and King’s dramatic decade-long debate over the meaning of an all-important American ideal. Read More
Interview Steven Weitzman on Disasters of Biblical Proportions February 10, 2026 Steven Weitzman explores how people of later ages—artists, writers, activists, philosophers, believers and unbelievers alike—have reshaped the story of the ten plagues to give expression to their own trauma, outrage, guilt, humor, and hope. Read More
Interview Virginia Dignum on The AI Paradox February 09, 2026 Drawing on her decades of experience in AI research and governance, Virginia Dignum cuts through the hype and sensationalism that often surround AI and reveals why the most profound questions it raises are not about technology but ourselves. Read More
Essay Carrying the Olympic flame February 06, 2026 My application to carry the Olympic torch in my adopted home of Sicily had been accepted. Along with 10,000 others from every walk of life—from famous celebrities to those who battle crippling disease—I would be part of the team that transports the flame from its origin in Ancient Olympia to the Games. I knew it would be a wonderful experience, but the strongest impression it left on me is not one that I expected. Read More
Interview Melissa Burch on The Criminal Record Complex February 04, 2026 The Criminal Record Complex chronicles the daily interactions of hiring managers, workforce development professionals, and job-seekers with felony convictions in Southern California, and Melissa Burch shows that this discrimination is not simply a matter of employer bias. Read More
Essay How I let go of gentrification February 03, 2026 While scholars argue over how to define and measure gentrification, the word has found a new home for itself. A broad range of people deploy the term, many of whom are less concerned with parsing its meaning than scholars like me. Read More
Reading List Exploring Black Experiences February 02, 2026 First proposed by Black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in 1969,?Black History Month, celebrated annually in February in the US, is an opportunity to celebrate Black voices, achievements, and to?reflect on the central role of African Americans throughout US history. 快色直播 is proud to publish books that engage with serious issues and ideas relating to Black experiences. Read More
Essay Dreaming under fascism January 27, 2026 Did ordinary Germans realise they were living through a historical nightmare? Would we recognise the same signs if we were living through them today? Read More
Interview Hrvoje Tkal?i? on When Worlds Quake January 27, 2026 When Worlds Quake by Hrvoje Tkal?i? is a fascinating account of how scientists around the globe seek to use quakes to answer tantalizing questions about the structure and inner dynamics of our planet and to discover the deepest secrets of our nearest neighbors in the solar system. Read More
Essay Children as projects January 22, 2026 Contemporary parenting is far from permissive chaos and more relentless effort: careful scheduling, constant supervision, and pouring our souls—as well as loads of money—into our children. Read More
Interview Mustafa Aksakal on The War That Made the Middle East January 22, 2026 A sweeping narrative of war, great power politics, and ordinary people caught up in the devastation, Mustafa Aksakal's The War That Made the Middle East offers new insights about the Great War and its profound and lasting consequences. Read More
Essay On the page January 21, 2026 “This is perhaps the greatest accomplishment of poetry: to descend, to fall, to break, to know that in writing and reading we become one again.” Read More
Essay Squirrels: Nature’s ultimate ambassadors January 20, 2026 At the edge of every woodland, backyard, and city park, a small, twitchy-nosed guide ushers us into our most common encounter with the wild. The squirrel lives where we live, moving easily between tree canopy and sidewalk, wilderness, and civilization. Long before we can name ecosystems or understand food webs, squirrels introduce us to the idea that we share our world with other lives. Read More
Essay When shaming backfires January 16, 2026 When someone behaves badly, a natural and understandable reaction is to shame them. But what if the problem being addressed is actually fuelled by shame? Read More
