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
Interview The need for material literacy October 03, 2022 In a time of screen saturation, digitized images of objects and manuscripts, and an emphasis on 鈥渒nowledge workers鈥� rather than craftspeople, we run the risk of becoming materially illiterate. Read More
Interview Aline, Eero, my boyfriend, and me September 20, 2022 A few years ago, after I had just met my boyfriend, we found ourselves driving in circles around a Colorado carpark. He claims the carpark was confusingly oriented, that its architecture seemed to indicate that we would go either up or down if we kept going. Read More
Interview The challenge of popularizing mathematics September 19, 2022 Of all the academic disciplines, mathematics is perhaps the most difficult to popularize. One must navigate a subject that is not always received with excitement by the general public. Read More
Essay On 鈥榮eeing鈥� trees and forests September 19, 2022 Forests and the trees that comprise them are understood at different scales of space and time. This is true for professional and recreational naturalists, research scientists, hikers, conservationists, eco-tourists, and ecologists. Read More
Interview Making democracy with autocrats: East Asia鈥檚 past, China鈥檚 future? September 15, 2022 Democracy is not just Western; it is Eastern as well. In a time when democracies globally鈥攊ncluding the United States鈥攁re endangered, three Asian democracies stand out for their quality and stability: Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Read More
Essay Word watch September 12, 2022 Ever have the feeling that you should know something, but you don鈥檛 yet know what it is? But wait, if it is unknown to you, then how do you know that you should know it? Read More
Interview Young, Gifted and Diverse: Q&A with the authors August 22, 2022 Despite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group. Read More
Essay Dinosaurs are more and less unknown than you think August 22, 2022 Even if you aren鈥檛 interested in dinosaurs, it鈥檚 almost impossible not to absorb some information from the endless swirl of discoveries reported in the media, new documentaries and even movies (of bother greater and lesser quality). Read More
Essay Rediscovering Melville and Mumford August 22, 2022 The darkest times often feel unprecedented, but as almost any historian will tell you, they鈥檙e not. Read More
Essay Why work matters August 09, 2022 The United States is one of the most unfriendly places in the world to have a child, especially for low-wage, working parents. To date, our current policy initiatives for working families focus on giving parents time away from work to cope with family responsibilities, with policies such as parental leave, sick time, and scheduling flexibility. Read More
