Video PUP Speaks: Claudia de Rham on a life spent in gravity鈥檚 pull May 26, 2025 How do you go from being a curious child to a cosmologist, chasing the secrets of gravity and defying and redefining how it works? Here, PUP Speaks speaker Claudia de Rham explores how mankind's curiosity for the workings of the natural world have impacted the way we interact with this unifying force. Read More
Podcast Citizen Marx May 19, 2025 In Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx鈥檚 thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. Read More
Podcast Looking for a Story May 19, 2025 Looking for a Story is a complete reader鈥檚 guide to McPhee鈥檚 vast published work, documenting much rarely seen or connected with McPhee, including remarkable early writing for Time magazine published without his name. 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
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
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 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
Podcast Memory Lane May 09, 2025 Memory Lane introduces readers to the cutting-edge science of human memory, revealing how our recollections of the past are constantly adapting and changing, and why a faulty memory isn鈥檛 always a bad thing. 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
Reading List Books for advancing the humanities and affirming our shared humanity May 06, 2025 According to the recent World Humanities Report, the humanities are threatened for the very reasons they are powerful. Literature, the arts, philosophy, aesthetics, history: these disciplines鈥攐nce considered vital to understanding what it means to be human鈥攔emain crucial in providing frameworks for understanding human experience, fostering ethical reasoning, countering authoritarianism, and addressing societal problems. Read More
Essay Lars Krutak on Indigenous Tattoo Traditions May 05, 2025 Transporting readers through history, anthropologist Lars Krutak explores the art and customs of tattooing across numerous ancestral lands, including Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, the Arctic, Oceania, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Siberia. Read More
Podcast Steadfast Democrats, Five Years Later May 01, 2025 An innovative explanation for why Black Americans continue in political lockstep, Steadfast Democrats sheds light on the motivations consolidating an influential portion of the American electoral population. Read More
Reading List Books for finding balance May 01, 2025 Research shows conclusively that overwork can be harmful to employees and humans at large, and yet it can be hard to find public examples of choices that support true balance, or guidance that puts health ahead of hustle. Read More
Video Jaap de Roode on the medical wonders of the animal world April 30, 2025 In this series of videos, Jaap de Roode聽introduces "Doctors by Nature" and answers questions about animal healing. Read More
