Essay Architecture’s forgotten figures October 10, 2025 Like any other subject, the history of modernist architecture has its favored heroes and plotlines, but also important figures who drop out of sight despite their contemporary successes. Ella Briggs is one of them. Read More
Essay Why should I care? ?antideva’s Project in How to Lead an Awakened Life October 06, 2025 Jay L. Garfield (author of How to Be Caring, How to Lose Yourself, and Losing Ourselves, all 快色直播) writes about the benefits of caring, both to society and to individuals. Read More
Podcast India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent October 06, 2025 Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through migration and trade. Read More
PUP Life: Celebrating National Poetry Day October 03, 2025 National Poetry Day is the largest mass celebration of poetry in the UK, with more than 1.5 million people participating annually. As an office of literature lovers, 快色直播 Oxford decided to mark the day with a dedicated time of poetry reading, featuring tea, doughnuts, and poets ranging from Rosetti to Robson. Read More
Spooky season reading October 03, 2025 Curious about all things melancholy and mysterious? As the nights grow longer and chillier, there's no better time to curl up with a hauntingly good book. From Gothic style and graveyards to Zombies and Calculus, we’re summoning the perfect reads for autumn’s darkest hours. Read More
Podcast Classicism and Other Phobias October 01, 2025 Dan-el Padilla Peralta shows how the concept of “classicism” lacks the capacity to affirm the aesthetic value of Black life and asks whether a different kind of classicism—one of insurgence, fugitivity, and emancipation—is possible. Read More
Unearthing the deep history of Native America October 01, 2025 As part of our longstanding Farmington River Archaeological Project, my field crew initiated an intensive search for sites in Peoples State Forest in 1985. Peoples is a heavily wooded state park consisting of about 3,000 acres located in the northwest Connecticut hill town of Barkhamsted. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Laura Portwood-Stacer on her editing framework September 26, 2025 So you’ve written an academic book—what now? In this video, PUP Speaks speaker and Publishing Consultant takes us through her method for revising a full book manuscript. Read More
Essay Growing old: The opportunity of burden September 25, 2025 A vibrant, ever-present elder force can act as a new role model to young people about what aging can and should look like—a corrective against ageist stereotypes and fears. When elders are better integrated into society, everyone benefits. Read More
Essay Why killing vampires makes people happy September 25, 2025 John Blair is the author of Killing the Dead, a riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia—and why killing the dead is better than killing the living. Read More
Interview Julia R. Azari on Backlash Presidents September 22, 2025 Julia R. Azari shows how, throughout American history, administrations that challenge the country’s racial status quo are followed by presidents who deal in racially charged politics and presidential lawlessness, culminating in impeachment crises. Read More
Essay The drowning child September 22, 2025 There are hundreds of thought experiments in philosophy, but not many have any influence beyond the discipline. Peter Singer’s drowning child thought experiment is a rare exception. Read More
Podcast The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear September 18, 2025 The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear by Nan Z. Da is a compelling new reading of The Tragedy of King Lear that finds parallels in twentieth-century Chinese history. Read More
Interview Ludovic Orlando on Horses September 18, 2025 Ludovic Orlando garnered world acclaim for helping to rewrite the genomic history of horse domestication. His book takes you behind the scenes of this ambitious genealogical investigation, revealing how he and an international team of scientists discovered the elusive origins of modern horses. Read More
Interview ?tienne Ghys on The Football September 15, 2025 ?tienne Ghys takes readers on an entertaining and fact-filled exploration of the mathematical secrets of the most popular spherical object on the planet. Discover why ballistics, friction, and air flow are key to scoring goals—and why the football is a mathematical problem that engineers are still trying to solve. Read More
