Essay Behind the attacks on the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and George Soros June 20, 2023 Soon after his indictment by the Manhattan District Attorney was announced, Donald Trump issued a statement in which he proclaimed the following: 鈥淢anhattan DA Alvin Bragg, who was handpicked and funded by George Soros, is a disgrace.鈥� Read More
Essay How I fell in love with natural history, with Craig Packer June 12, 2023 To celebrate the coming of summer, we asked several of our naturalist writers and scholars to respond to the following question: How did you fall in love with natural history? This week, we hear from Dr. Craig Packer. Read More
Interview In dialogue: Possibilities of queer histories June 12, 2023 In commemoration of Pride Month, we asked three of our authors the following question: What possibilities do queer histories open for charting a future toward liberation? Read More
Essay How I fell in love with natural history, with Olivia Messinger Carril June 07, 2023 To celebrate the arrival of summer, we asked several of our naturalist writers and scholars to respond to the following question: How did you fall in love with natural history? This week, we hear from Dr. Olivia Messinger Carril. Read More
Interview Peter Grant on Enchanted by Daphne May 31, 2023 In his revelatory book, Grant takes readers from his childhood in World War聽II鈥揺ra Britain to his ongoing research today in the Gal谩pagos archipelago. Read More
Essay Return to office? How COVID-19 and remote work reshaped the economy May 30, 2023 The last great battle of the COVID-19 pandemic is not over masks or vaccines or big government policies.聽It鈥檚 over remote work. Read More
Essay Can bankers ever be virtuous? May 24, 2023 There are few today who link banking with virtue. The common view is of an industry greedy for profits and far too willing to take risks that, when they go wrong, lead to expensive bail outs using tax-payers鈥� money while the perpetrators walk away with their bonuses intact. Read More
Essay The therapist and the gadfly May 24, 2023 If you want to improve yourself鈥攂e happier, for example鈥攜ou shouldn鈥檛 consult society鈥檚 ideas of a good life, as portrayed in magazines, pillows, and posters. Instead, you should find the equivalent of a horse trainer. Read More
Essay Rabbis in the Roman public bathhouse: Ancient perspectives on modern sensibilities May 03, 2023 The figure of the rabbi, whether modern or ancient, seems far removed from the corporeal reality of a Roman public bathhouse鈥攐r at least that鈥檚 what we would assume. Yet, the vast body of writings, known collectively as Rabbinic Literature, paints an entirely different picture. Read More
Interview Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi on The Individualists May 01, 2023 Libertarianism emerged in the mid-nineteenth century with an unwavering commitment to progressive causes, from women鈥檚 rights and the fight against slavery to anti-colonialism and Irish emancipation. Read More
Interview In dialogue: How does poetry help? April 30, 2023 Across the world, poems have existed for millennia, asking questions and telling stories that affirm, interrogate, celebrate, or simply sit with the mysteries of human life. As more and more of our lives become carved away by forces of consumerism, these mysteries may become buried deeper still, perhaps prompting us to wonder, how does poetry help? Read More
Essay Declaration of independents April 26, 2023 While there are many miles to go, booksellers deserve a day of celebration; a day to show the world the good they have done and the power a community bookstore can have. Read More
Essay Truth matters: Why we should fight disinformation at all costs April 25, 2023 Why can some social insects carry out what nonhuman primates can鈥檛? The answer lies in large-scale collaboration. Read More
Essay Honoring fairy tales April 14, 2023 Fairy tales are not medicine for the sick world in which we live, they are indications and traces of what we were and can become. Read More
Essay David Edmonds on Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality April 14, 2023 Derek Parfit was an obsessive. For much of his adult life he had two obsessions. Philosophy was one, photography another. Every year, for many years, he would travel to Venice and St. Petersburg and photograph the same buildings, trying to take the perfect shot. Read More
