Podcast On Harry Frankfurt July 24, 2025 Named for the famous philosophy treatise by the late Harry Frankfurt, The Truth About Bullshit podcast聽seeks to illuminate our world and the pressing issues therein by calling out 鈥榖ullshit鈥� 鈥� a misrepresentation聽of truth 鈥� in all its forms. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Laine Nooney on the history of the gaming industry July 24, 2025 The history of video games goes beyond the arcade boom of the 70s and 80s, when Pacman and Space Invaders saw gamers spending quarters in their billions. Read More
Podcast Introducing the Critical Edition of the Works of C. G. Jung July 23, 2025 Sonu Shamdasani, an esteemed historian of psychiatry and psychology and a preeminent expert on Jung, talks with Caleb Zakarin about an exciting new translation project. 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
Podcast When the Bombs Stopped July 16, 2025 In When the Bombs Stopped, Erin Lin investigates the consequences of the US bombing campaign across postconflict Cambodia. 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 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
Space travel for armchair astronauts July 14, 2025 Humanity has long contemplated the mysteries of the night sky. From ancient stargazers to modern astrophysicists, our journey to understand the cosmos has been one of awe, curiosity, and discovery. Exploring topics from black holes to the Big Bang, to the search for habitable planets, our special 鈥淪pace Exploration Day鈥� reading list illuminates humanity鈥檚 exploration of space鈥攆rom the scientific to the philosophical. Read More
Video In dialogue: What questions should we be asking about immigration right now? July 10, 2025 Immigration remains one of the most polarizing issues in public discourse, sparking intense debates over ethics, economics, and national identity. We asked Irene Vega and Asad L. Asad to reflect on what questions we should be asking about immigration at this moment in history. Read More
Video Hilary Holladay on The Power of Adrienne Rich July 09, 2025 A major American writer, thinker, and activist, Adrienne Rich (1929鈥�2012) transformed herself from a traditional, Radcliffe-educated lyric poet and married mother of three sons into a path-breaking lesbian-feminist author of forceful, uncompromising prose as well as poetry. 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
Reading List Summer listening July 01, 2025 Just in time for summer lounging, we invite you to browse聽a聽selection of our audiobooks, brought to you聽through our publishing program, 91桃色 Audio. Read More
Podcast The Insiders鈥� Game June 30, 2025 Tracing presidential decisions about the use of force from the Cold War through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Elizabeth N. Saunders reveals how the elite politics of war are a central feature of democracy. The Insiders鈥� Game shifts the focus of democratic accountability from the voting booth to the halls of power. Read More
