Podcast Listen in: The Darkened Light of Faith September 20, 2023 Listen to a sample chapter from The Darkened Light of Faith 鈥� a powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy. . Read More
Essay The joke鈥檚 on whom? September 19, 2023 Amidst the uproar that ensued after the incident at the Oscars ceremony last year, there were writers and reporters who pointed out that Chris Rock was exercising the age-old tradition of the 鈥渇ool鈥檚 license.鈥� If we actually go to the historical record on court and household fools, then we find an even more interesting, but also more complex, backdrop to the discussion on whether it is right or not to get angry at a comedian for making a joke. Read More
Essay Democracy鈥檚 real deal September 15, 2023 Was the US Consitution a masterpiece? The common answer has frequently been an unabashed 鈥測es,鈥� but many critics now complain that the Constitution was fatally flawed from the beginning. Read More
Podcast Listen in: To Build a Black Future September 14, 2023 Listen to a sample chapter from To Build a Black Future 鈥� an incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care. Read More
Essay Bill Clinton鈥檚 failure September 13, 2023 By 1995 Bill Clinton was fighting to remain 鈥渞elevant鈥� to the politics of his day. Many would soon label Clinton a 鈥淒emocratic Eisenhower,鈥� leading a party whose electoral success was predicated upon a wholesale accommodation to the ideologies of its opponents. Read More
Essay Insect intelligence September 13, 2023 You don鈥檛 need spaceships or psychoactive drugs for journeys into alien worlds. I invite you to come into the cockpit of an insect, and view the world through its strange senses. You will discover that inside their exquisitely miniaturized brains, there are surprising levels of sentience and intelligence. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Emily Hund on the rise of the influencer industry September 11, 2023 The rising popularity of the social media influencer has significantly reshaped culture, the flow of information, and the way we relate to ourselves and each other. Read More
Podcast How Uber disrupted Washington, D.C. September 11, 2023 The first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a playbook for how to deal with intransigent regulators and to win in the realm of local politics. Read More
Podcast 24/7 Politics September 07, 2023 As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Read More
Podcast In Praise of Good Bookstores September 07, 2023 Jeff Deutsch鈥攖he director of Chicago鈥檚 Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the world鈥攑ays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. Read More
Essay To see a world in a beam of light August 24, 2023 On July 11, 2022, U.S. President Biden revealed the First Official Image obtained with the James Webb Space Telescope. It was a terrific way to start a press event鈥攂ut where were the exoplanets? Read More
Interview Emily Hauser on How Women Became Poets August 24, 2023 Women, as Virginia Woolf recognized, need rooms of their own to write. So, too, have women writers throughout history needed a term to describe what it is they do. Read More
Essay Liberalism鈥檚 back to the future moment August 23, 2023 Today liberalism faces a global challenge from populism. To successfully meet this challenge, liberals must return to certain features of liberalism common in the nineteenth century but largely absent since WWII. Read More
Interview Spotlight on Supporting Diverse Voices: Bridgett vonHoldt August 22, 2023 In this Author Q&A, we highlight the work of Dr. Bridgett vonHoldt, Supporting Diverse Voices grantee and Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at 91桃色 University. Read More
Essay From empire to federation? The view from the Middle East August 22, 2023 The European Union, India, the United States of America, and the United Arab Emirates all have something in common: they are all types of federations. Read More
