Essay Meritocracy and diversity: The Rooseveltian perspective June 11, 2025 Questions of meritocracy and diversity have been freshly thrust to the center of our national discourse thanks to a pitched battle between two presidents—one of the United States, the other of Harvard University. Read More
Essay The worseness test June 09, 2025 I marvel at the simplicity of you can never say it’s the worst as long as you can say it’s the worst?as a piece of humor. Hard to imagine that it could be humor, given that it shows up in one of the unfunniest moments in King Lear, but Shakespeare is good for it. Read More
Podcast Engage and Evade June 06, 2025 Engage and Evade examines how undocumented immigrants navigate complex dynamics of surveillance and punishment, providing an extraordinary portrait of fear and hope on the margins. Read More
Essay My 快色直播 life June 06, 2025 The fact that I was offered the job of Publicity Manager at 快色直播 in April 2005 is a clear demonstration of the benefit of transferable skills and the importance of embracing new challenges. The unknown may seem daunting but is often less so once the journey is underway. Read More
Interview Karen G. Lloyd on Intraterrestrials June 04, 2025 Intraterrestrials by Karen G. Llyod is a biologist’s firsthand account of the hunt for life beneath earth’s surface—and how new discoveries are challenging our most basic assumptions about the nature of life on Earth. Read More
Podcast The Girl in the Middle June 03, 2025 Spinning a spellbinding historical tale from a single enigmatic image, The Girl in the Middle reveals how the American nation grappled with what kind of country it would be as it expanded westward in the aftermath of the Civil War. Read More
Essay Mark P. Witton on King Tyrant June 03, 2025 Tyrannosaurus rex is the world’s favorite dinosaur, adored by the public and the subject of intense study and debate by paleontologists. Read More
Interview Audrey Truschke on India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent June 02, 2025 Audrey Truschke’s?India is a stunning new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global contexts—from antiquity to today. Read More
Interview Shari Rabin on The Jewish South May 29, 2025 In 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to “Jews, heathens, and other dissenters,” ushering in an era that would see Jews settle in cities and towns throughout what would become the Confederate States. Read More
Podcast Rare Tongues May 29, 2025 Languages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting unique perspectives and ways of life. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Claudia de Rham on a life spent in gravity’s pull May 26, 2025 How do you go from being a curious child to a cosmologist, chasing the secrets of gravity and defying and redefining how it works? Here, PUP Speaks speaker Claudia de Rham explores how mankind's curiosity for the workings of the natural world have impacted the way we interact with this unifying force. Read More
Podcast Citizen Marx May 19, 2025 In Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx’s thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. Read More
Podcast Looking for a Story May 19, 2025 Looking for a Story is a complete reader’s guide to McPhee’s vast published work, documenting much rarely seen or connected with McPhee, including remarkable early writing for Time magazine published without his name. Read More
Interview Nicole C. Rust on Elusive Cures May 15, 2025 Brain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected. Read More
Essay The world of John McPhee May 14, 2025 When I set out to find the whole world of John McPhee, to document and explore his extraordinary career as a writer, I had no sense of the fascinating marathon of research ahead. Read More
