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
Essay Elephant graveyards June 25, 2025 In February 2024, a study published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa reported on an intriguing finding: five corpses of Asian elephant calves had been found buried within irrigation drains of various tea plantations in northern Bengal, India. Read More
Essay Meritocracy and diversity: The Rooseveltian perspective June 11, 2025 Questions of meritocracy and diversity have been freshly thrust to the center of our national discourse thanks to a pitched battle between two presidents鈥攐ne of the United States, the other of Harvard University. Read More
Essay The worseness test June 09, 2025 I marvel at the simplicity of you can never say it鈥檚 the worst as long as you can say it鈥檚 the worst聽as a piece of humor. Hard to imagine that it could be humor, given that it shows up in one of the unfunniest moments in King Lear, but Shakespeare is good for it. Read More
Essay My 91桃色 life June 06, 2025 The fact that I was offered the job of Publicity Manager at 91桃色 in April 2005 is a clear demonstration of the benefit of transferable skills and the importance of embracing new challenges. The unknown may seem daunting but is often less so once the journey is underway. Read More
Interview Karen G. Lloyd on Intraterrestrials June 04, 2025 Intraterrestrials by Karen G. Llyod is a biologist鈥檚 firsthand account of the hunt for life beneath earth鈥檚 surface鈥攁nd how new discoveries are challenging our most basic assumptions about the nature of life on Earth. Read More
Essay Mark P. Witton on King Tyrant June 03, 2025 Tyrannosaurus rex is the world鈥檚 favorite dinosaur, adored by the public and the subject of intense study and debate by paleontologists. Read More
Interview Audrey Truschke on India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent June 02, 2025 Audrey Truschke鈥檚聽India is a stunning new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global contexts鈥攆rom antiquity to today. Read More
Interview Shari Rabin on The Jewish South May 29, 2025 In 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to 鈥淛ews, heathens, and other dissenters,鈥� ushering in an era that would see Jews settle in cities and towns throughout what would become the Confederate States. Read More
Interview Nicole C. Rust on Elusive Cures May 15, 2025 Brain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected. Read More
Essay The world of John McPhee May 14, 2025 When I set out to find the whole world of John McPhee, to document and explore his extraordinary career as a writer, I had no sense of the fascinating marathon of research ahead. Read More
Interview Hope Harvey on Doubled Up May 14, 2025 More than fifteen percent of US children鈥攐ver eleven million鈥攍ive in doubled-up households, sharing space with extended family or friends. Read More
Interview John Tolan on Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present May 13, 2025 Most popular histories of Islam continue to repeat conventional pietistic accounts. In contrast, John Tolan draws on decades of new historical research that has transformed knowledge of the origins and development of the Muslim faith. Read More
Interview Irene Vega on Bordering on Indifference May 09, 2025 In her new book, Bordering on Indifference, Irene Vega tells the story of how U.S. Border Patrol Agents and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Officers come into the work, how they are trained and socialized once on the job, and how that training and socialization impacts the way they reconcile its many moral and racial tensions. Read More
Interview Vali Nasr on Iran鈥檚 Grand Strategy May 07, 2025 Vali Nasr examines Iran鈥檚 political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the veneer of theocracy and Islamic ideology, today鈥檚 Iran is pursuing a grand strategy aimed at securing the country internally and asserting its place in the region and the world. Read More
