Essay The unexpected dividends of a congressional internship May 23, 2024 When I first set foot on Capitol Hill 18 years ago to begin my summer internship, I was immediately struck by the awe-inspiring presence of the Capitol. Read More
Essay The post-pandemic economy May 22, 2024 The pandemic鈥檚 later economic waves may be its biggest and most important. Read More
Essay A sermon from a mountebank? Religious messaging in the age of AI May 21, 2024 The news that the religious group Catholic Answers was obliged to 鈥渄efrock鈥� an AI priest called Father Justin after it gave answers falsely claiming to be a real priest has caused widespread alarm among the faithful and glee among the skeptical. Read More
Interview Christina Grozinger and Harland Patch on The Lives of Bees May 21, 2024 The Lives of Bees takes readers inside the world of these marvelous insects, exploring their physiology, behavior, ecology, evolution, and much more. Read More
Interview David N. Livingstone on The Empire of Climate May 20, 2024 Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Read More
Interview Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on Father Time May 15, 2024 As mother-centered as the study of baby care has always been, it is increasingly clear that men harbor extraordinarily caring proclivities. Read More
Interview Michael A. Cook on A History of the Muslim World May 15, 2024 Over the years Michael Cook has accumulated a large fund of material in the course of teaching students about the history of the Muslim world. So what was he to do with it? Read More
Essay The eloquence of color charts May 13, 2024 Researching color sampling meant reconstructing entire worlds from scraps of fabric or daubs of paint. Read More
Essay The power of creating archival silences May 13, 2024 We know, scientifically speaking, far less about the effects of poor posture on health then we think we do. Read More
Interview Michelle S. Phelps on The Minneapolis Reckoning May 09, 2024 Drawing on years of fieldwork, 鈥淭he Minneapolis Reckoning鈥� describes how Minneapolis arrived at the brink of police abolition and what happened next. Read More
Interview Frank L. Cioffi on Stellar English May 09, 2024 Frank L. Cioffi wanted to write a handbook that was more than merely a reference work, a grammar handbook that readers would feel compelled to read cover-to-cover. Read More
Essay New problems in small places April 29, 2024 One of the many trends that made headlines during the Covid-19 pandemic was people moving from large, dense cities to smaller cities, towns, and even rural areas, bypassing the suburbs. Read More
Essay Age of anxiety / age of hope April 22, 2024 We all know anxiety as a physiological response to a source of alarm. But it can also serve as an alarm in and of itself鈥攊f the real source of the anxiety is not evident to the conscious mind. Read More
Essay The 2024 solar eclipse might be an omen, but what does it portend? April 18, 2024 As the warmest winter in human history draws to a close, many of us are unsure about what comes next. At least celestial mechanics are unaffected. Read More
Essay Our innumerate democracy April 16, 2024 The Declaration of Independence is a mathematical document. It starts by proclaiming certain truths to be self-evident and proceeds to list them. In math, such statements are the axioms of a theory. Read More
