Interview Ideas and inspiration from 91桃色 fellows November 14, 2022 In July 2022, 91桃色 welcomed its second-year Publishing Fellows. The Publishing Fellowship was created in 2021 to聽address a lack of diverse representation across the publishing industry, as part of a Press-wide聽Equity and Inclusion strategic initiative聽launched in 2018. Read More
Essay Prague鈥檚 infinite shades of gray November 10, 2022 Interwar Prague was an avant-garde hotbed, but the first exhibition of Czech art to take place at New York鈥檚 Museum of Modern Art was not devoted to Czech modernism. Read More
Interview Richard S. Ellis on When Galaxies Were Born November 10, 2022 Astronomers are like time travelers, scanning the night sky for the outermost galaxies that first came into being when our universe was a mere fraction of its present age. Read More
Interview Alex Zakaras on The Roots of American Individualism November 04, 2022 Individualism is a defining feature of American public life. Its influence is pervasive today, with liberals and conservatives alike promising to expand personal freedom and defend individual rights against unwanted intrusion, be it from big government, big corporations, or intolerant majorities.聽 Read More
Essay Gurus of degrowth: Say hello to the ancient Cynics November 03, 2022 Mark Twain once quipped 鈥淗eaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.鈥� Read More
Essay Listening to the tree of life November 02, 2022 Listening to nature is an ancient art. But for most of human history, our ability to listen to other species was constrained. Humans are unable to hear many of the myriad sounds made by other species. Read More
Essay Can we accept other people鈥檚 relationships with the environment? November 02, 2022 In the acclaimed television series, The Good Place, the main characters come to learn that in over 500 years, no one has avoided going to 鈥渢he bad place鈥� after their death. Read More
Essay Playing in the gray October 28, 2022 How do global elites capitalize on risky frontier markets? They master the art of playing in the gray. Read More
Essay How Americans鈥� priorities explain abortion politics October 28, 2022 In only a few months, the Supreme Court鈥檚 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women鈥檚 Health Organization鈥攊n which the Court majority invalidated the constitutional right to an abortion established almost 50 years ago鈥攈as scrambled the political landscape. Read More
Essay On consolation, grief, and coping, and heaven October 24, 2022 Psychotherapy is not a recent invention. Thousands of years before Freud, Greek thinkers had discovered the seemingly magical effects that words can have to soothe the mind. Read More
Essay Christian nationalism, Christian globalism and White Americans October 21, 2022 Christian Nationalism鈥檚 threat to a healthy democracy is a popular topic these days, and with good reason. But few of the many excellent books and articles on the topic explain its origins. Read More
Essay Traveling to the stars October 21, 2022 Barely a week goes by without learning about a newly discovered planet circling some nearby, but still quite distant, star. It wasn鈥檛 until the 1990s that scientists had compelling evidence that such exoplanets existed, and the pace of their discovery since then has been astonishing. Read More
Essay Trust in a distrustful world October 18, 2022 US politics faces a serious trust deficit. MAGA Republicans don鈥檛 trust RINOs, leftist Democrats don鈥檛 trust their centrist colleagues, Republicans don鈥檛 trust Democrats (and vice versa), and trust in major social institutions has been weakening for decades. Read More
Podcast Listening to the desert October 18, 2022 Deserts are among the most deeply evocative landscapes in the world. They inspire fear and awe, devotion and revulsion, fascination and longing. Read More
Interview Jonathan Kirshner on An Unwritten Future October 16, 2022 An Unwritten Future聽offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena. Read More
