Essay Bidenomics and the Hillbilly Highway October 12, 2023 No region in the country has witnessed a greater decline in its manufacturing employment rate during the twenty-first century than the southeast. Regional deindustrialization, as much if not more so than the politics of racial resentment, explains the current era of one-party Republican rule in the South. Read More
Essay Dog diplomacy October 03, 2023 The habit of judging a political figure by their dog may seem to be a distinctively medieval preoccupation. Yet it is by no means alien to modern political discourse. Read More
Interview Angus Deaton on Economics in America October 03, 2023 Deaton tells the story of the last 40 years of economics in America, not by writing about economics directly, but by telling stories about the adventures of economists鈥攊ncluding himself 鈥攊n research and in policy. Read More
Interview Myisha Cherry on Failures of Forgiveness September 28, 2023 Forgiveness聽is one way at repair. It is not the only way.聽Forgiveness聽can never reach repair by itself. It requires work from community members as well as victims and wrongdoers. Read More
Essay Renewing the civic bargain September 27, 2023 Democracy today is in trouble: we see free governments wobbling, political tribalism everywhere, and rising authoritarianism. America, once the showcase of democracy done right now seems a system gone wrong. Read More
Essay The joke鈥檚 on whom? September 19, 2023 Amidst the uproar that ensued after the incident at the Oscars ceremony last year, there were writers and reporters who pointed out that Chris Rock was exercising the age-old tradition of the 鈥渇ool鈥檚 license.鈥� If we actually go to the historical record on court and household fools, then we find an even more interesting, but also more complex, backdrop to the discussion on whether it is right or not to get angry at a comedian for making a joke. Read More
Essay Insect intelligence September 13, 2023 You don鈥檛 need spaceships or psychoactive drugs for journeys into alien worlds. I invite you to come into the cockpit of an insect, and view the world through its strange senses. You will discover that inside their exquisitely miniaturized brains, there are surprising levels of sentience and intelligence. Read More
Essay Bill Clinton鈥檚 failure September 13, 2023 By 1995 Bill Clinton was fighting to remain 鈥渞elevant鈥� to the politics of his day. Many would soon label Clinton a 鈥淒emocratic Eisenhower,鈥� leading a party whose electoral success was predicated upon a wholesale accommodation to the ideologies of its opponents. Read More
Essay To see a world in a beam of light August 24, 2023 On July 11, 2022, U.S. President Biden revealed the First Official Image obtained with the James Webb Space Telescope. It was a terrific way to start a press event鈥攂ut where were the exoplanets? Read More
Interview Emily Hauser on How Women Became Poets August 24, 2023 Women, as Virginia Woolf recognized, need rooms of their own to write. So, too, have women writers throughout history needed a term to describe what it is they do. Read More
Essay Liberalism鈥檚 back to the future moment August 23, 2023 Today liberalism faces a global challenge from populism. To successfully meet this challenge, liberals must return to certain features of liberalism common in the nineteenth century but largely absent since WWII. Read More
Essay From empire to federation? The view from the Middle East August 22, 2023 The European Union, India, the United States of America, and the United Arab Emirates all have something in common: they are all types of federations. Read More
Interview Spotlight on Supporting Diverse Voices: Bridgett vonHoldt August 22, 2023 In this Author Q&A, we highlight the work of Dr. Bridgett vonHoldt, Supporting Diverse Voices grantee and Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at 91桃色 University. Read More
Essay Uber鈥檚 view of urban life August 21, 2023 For years, Diana, who has lived her whole life in the D.C. area, took jobs at fast-food restaurants even though she hated the work. When she started to drive for Uber in 2016, she told us she was enthusiastic about its potential to free her from a reliance on fast-food jobs. Diana was conflicted about Uber, however. Read More
Essay Emotional creatures and the cultivation of mental health August 21, 2023 In Britain and America, mental health is increasingly thought of as a transversal issue, as important for psychologists as for patients, probation workers as for prisoners, politicians as for constituents. Read More
