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
Essay Capitalism: The word and the thing October 12, 2022 Capitalism is a word used variously to describe an economic and social system, a modern form of political power, a dynamic mode of production, a stage in a world-historical process running from feudalism to communism, a western object of ideological allegiance, a durable form of inequality or, more simply, a thing. Read More
Interview What is viral justice? An interview with Ruha Benjamin October 11, 2022 In spring 2020, Ruha Benjamin received a DM on Twitter from her literary agent Sarah Levitt: 鈥淚鈥檓 hungry to read anything you have.鈥� Inspired, Benjamin began writing and spent the first few months of the pandemic conceiving what would become her new book, Viral Justice. Read More
Essay On anniversaries, time, patience, perseverance, and publishing October 11, 2022 As Cicero wrote, 鈥渨e truly can鈥檛 praise the love and pursuit of wisdom enough, since it allows a person to enjoy every stage of life free from worry.鈥� These same words of wisdom scale readily from an individual to an organization like PUP, as we navigate every stage of the book, and every stage of our life as a publisher. Read More
Essay What I mean by landscape orientation October 05, 2022 I entered without words: Poems has been described as 鈥渓andscape oriented鈥� in every sense.聽Originally a photographic term, now applied to a horizontal page, landscape orientation is, for me, a poetics.聽A poetics that begins by questioning the term 鈥渓andscape鈥� itself. Read More
