Podcast The Career Arts November 27, 2023 Young people coming out of high school today can expect to hold many jobs over the course of their lives, which is why they need a range of essential skills.聽 Read More
Podcast Listen in: Free Agents November 27, 2023 Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency鈥攐r free will鈥攊s an illusion. Read More
Essay What it鈥檚 like to be a bee November 21, 2023 Alien minds are right here, all around you. Indeed, the perceptual world of bees is so distinct from ours, governed by completely different sense organs, and their lives are ruled by such different priorities, that they might be accurately regarded as aliens from inner space. Read More
Interview Julie A. Phillips on The Lives of Seaweeds November 17, 2023 Our understanding of the evolution of seaweeds and other algae is undergoing a revolution. Over the last five decades, numerous scientific studies have generated a wealth of new data and a new classification scheme that assigns various algal species to four of the six kingdoms of life on Earth鈥攁n unprecedented phenomenon in the living world! Read More
Essay PUP Speaks on boosting author voices from page to stage November 15, 2023 In the summer of 2022, I joined 91桃色 in the second cohort of its annual Publishing Fellowship, a year-long position explicitly intended for individuals with no industry experience. Read More
Essay The long history of the chapter book November 14, 2023 Very few adult readers are likely to remember it, but imagine, if you will, your first experience reading a book divided into chapters. What confronted you was a story that unexpectedly stuttered. Read More
Interview Robert Wuthnow on Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice November 14, 2023 Have progressive religious organizations been missing in action in recent struggles for racial justice? Robert Wuthnow shows that, contrary to activists鈥� accusations of complacency, Black and White faith leaders have fought steadily for racial and social justice since the end of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Deaths of Despair November 12, 2023 Deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives. Anne Case and Angus Deaton explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. Read More
Essay Approaching 2024: A perspective on opposition and democracy from Indian history November 08, 2023 Next year, the world鈥檚 largest democracy will head to the polls. Narendra Modi鈥檚 dominant ethnomajoritarian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies will seek to win a third straight victory in India鈥檚 General Election. At this crucial crossroads, it is worth reflecting upon the history of one opposition party during the original era of one-party dominance. Read More
Essay Winning isn鈥檛 everything, especially in democracy November 08, 2023 Trump responded to his loss in the 2020 election by being the epitome of a 鈥渟ore loser鈥�: by denying that he had lost and doubling down on baseless conspiracy theories of electoral fraud. He is not alone. There are multiple examples of sore losers in US politics today. Read More
Podcast American Classicist November 03, 2023 Edith Hamilton (1867鈥�1963) didn鈥檛 publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former headmistress would become the twentieth century鈥檚 most famous interpreter of the classical world. Read More
Interview In Dialogue: The future of diversity on campus in the wake of the affirmative action ruling November 02, 2023 With the first round of early decision deadlines happening this month, it鈥檚 a good time to reflect on the realm of higher education and its evolving dynamics, including the multifaceted nature of equitable and inclusive education. Read More
Essay How life evolved the power to choose October 27, 2023 In recent years, more threats to our notions of agency and free will have sprung up, from diverse areas of science. If we come prewired in ways that influence our decision-making, how free can we really be? Read More
Essay Lingering, longing at dawn October 23, 2023 In a mountain town whose name I鈥檝e forgotten, about fifty miles from Marrakech, I remembered an old woman sitting alone in a field. She had lost her home. Read More
Interview A conversation with Kimberly Kay Hoang, author of the 2023 PROSE Awards R.R. Hawkins Award Winner Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets October 20, 2023 Kimberly Kay Hoang is an award-winning scholar, author, teacher, current Professor of Sociology and the College and the Director of Global Studies at the University of Chicago, and the author of two books:聽Spiderweb Capitalism and聽Dealing in Desire. Read More
