Interview 脡tienne Ghys on The Football September 15, 2025 脡tienne Ghys takes readers on an entertaining and fact-filled exploration of the mathematical secrets of the most popular spherical object on the planet. Discover why ballistics, friction, and air flow are key to scoring goals鈥攁nd why the football is a mathematical problem that engineers are still trying to solve. Read More
Interview David Garland on Law and Order Leviathan September 04, 2025 How could America, that storied land of liberty, be home to mass incarceration, police killings, and racialized criminal justice? In Law and Order Leviathan, David Garland explains how America鈥檚 racialized political economy gives rise to this extraordinary outcome. Read More
Interview David Woodman on The First King of England September 03, 2025 David Woodman blends masterful storytelling with the latest scholarship to paint a multifaceted portrait of 脝thelstan (d. 939)鈥攁n immensely important but neglected figure. Read More
Essay 鈥淗e鈥檒l never see it鈥�: Why am I the only one who notices the mess? September 02, 2025 When I asked Colleen, a 40-something lawyer and mother of two tweens, to recall any disagreements she鈥檇 had with her husband Ted about housework, she identified one major gripe: 鈥淗e鈥檚 not great about self-starting house stuff.鈥� Read More
Interview Bailey Brown on Kindergarten Panic August 18, 2025 Drawing on interviews with more than a hundred parents of elementary school students in New York City, Bailey A. Brown shows how inequality manifests itself as parents and students deal with the uncertainties of the school choice process. Read More
Interview Mark Vellend on Everything Evolves August 11, 2025 Mark Vellend describes how all observable phenomena in the universe can be understood through two sciences. The first is physics. The second is the science of evolvable systems. Read More
Essay PUP Life: Eleanor Smith on the work of international rights in publishing August 11, 2025 Follow a day in the life of Eleanor Smith, 91桃色 International Rights Executive. Read More
Essay PUP Life: Behind the mic with Danielle D鈥橭rlando July 29, 2025 Danielle D鈥橭rlando recounts a day in the life of being the Curator of Audio at 91桃色. Read More
Essay Taxing thoughts July 18, 2025 鈥淒on鈥檛 tax you, don鈥檛 tax me, tax that man behind the tree,鈥� the legendary Democratic senator from Louisiana, Senator Russell B. Long, once quipped. Taxes might be key to funding government, but most of us would rather not pay. Read More
Essay Get creative with the truth, or lose the war on medical science July 17, 2025 These are desperate times. Doublespeak dominates politics. Institutions that safeguard the truth are under siege. A firestorm of disinformation rages. Distrust of medical science thrives in the ashes. Read More
Essay The public lives of private diaries July 15, 2025 In 1959 I kept a diary. An image of a pensive, green-uniformed Girl Scout with pencil poised at the corner of her mouth dominated the puffy plastic cover of the small book. Instinctively I knew that the lock and key were more an invitation than a deterrent, that because my diary was private, people would want to read it. Read More
Essay Bernd Roeck on The World at First Light July 15, 2025 The cultural epoch we know as the Renaissance emerged at a certain time and in a certain place. Why then and not earlier? Why there and not elsewhere? Historian Bernd Roeck explores the cultural and historical preconditions that enabled the European Renaissance. Read More
Essay Ridicule through time July 07, 2025 Satire has the power to embarrass, humiliate, appal, excruciate, and amuse its many different audiences, but what has its history been? Read More
Essay The bombs that didn鈥檛 go off July 07, 2025 Despite their years of experience and hard work, Lom and Leang are failing at small-scale commercial production. Why are these smart and hard-working farmers in one of the most fertile areas in the country tallying so many losses, unable to clear their share of agricultural profits? Read More
Interview Ilana Horwitz on The Entrepreneurial Scholar June 25, 2025 In the increasingly competitive world of academia, simply mastering your discipline is no longer enough to guarantee career success or personal fulfillment. Read More
