Podcast Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men March 11, 2025 In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. Read More
Essay Content moderation is a policy problem, not just a platform problem March 11, 2025 We have all witnessed the familiar cycle. Extremist or hateful content surfaces online and sparks public outrage鈥攑erhaps a stream of violent propaganda, a wave of conspiracy theories, or explicit calls for harm. Read More
Podcast After 1177 B.C. March 05, 2025 In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed鈥攚hy some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever. Read More
Interview Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy on Memory Lane March 05, 2025 We tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains. In fact, we construct and reconstruct our memories every time we attempt to recall them. Read More
Podcast The Age of Choice March 03, 2025 Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to believe. But the option to choose in such matters was not something we always possessed or even aspired to. The Age of Choice tells the long history of the invention of choice as the defining feature of modern freedom. Read More
Interview Ian Stewart on The Celts: A Modern History March 03, 2025 A new history of the Celts that reveals how this once-forgotten people became a pillar of modern national identity in Britain, Ireland, and France. Read More
Reading List Books to read during Women鈥檚 History Month March 01, 2025 Explore books by and about women who have pushed boundaries, effected change, redefined roles, or who have complicated our understanding of what it means to be powerful. Read More
Essay Celebrating Bird Photographer of the Year February 22, 2025 Photographers from "Bird Photographer of the Year: Collection 9" tell the stories behind their selected shots. Read More
Podcast We Have Never Been Woke February 22, 2025 Society has never been more egalitarian鈥攊n theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, each tied to the rise of a new elite鈥攖he symbolic capitalists. Read More
Essay Paradoxical possibility: embracing anti-racism鈥檚 contradictions February 19, 2025 Anti-racism work is paradoxical. It requires the capacity to straddle contradictory yet interdependent realities that seem irreconcilable but must and can both be navigated. Read More
Essay Bad Bunny, Puerto Rico, and public history February 19, 2025 The evening before Three King鈥檚 Day, on January 6th, Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny released his sixth album DeB脥 TiRAR MaS FOTos (I Should Have Taken More Pictures). Instead of releasing highly produced videos, the artist's team worked with Jorell Mel茅ndez-Badillo, author of 鈥淧uerto Rico: A National History,鈥� to create historical slides that were launched alongside each of the seventeen tracks. Read More
Essay How we make quasi-humans and super-humans February 13, 2025 Are AI and robots pushing us over the edge toward some "post-human" utopia, or apocalyptic "singularity"? Things that define or challenge our intuitions about the boundaries of the human can be sources of trouble. Read More
Essay Emma Jung鈥檚 years of self-liberation February 11, 2025 Emma Jung鈥檚 creative life is recorded in numerous handwritten notebooks and art portfolios, all of which lay undisturbed after her death in 1955. Until her documents in the family archive were systematically studied, she had not been thought of as a real contributor to the movement of analytical psychology, or as a full partner in her husband鈥檚 ground-breaking work. Read More
Interview Reading voices February 11, 2025 Even when it is performed for oneself, reading unfolds on an inner stage populated by different voices. Read More
Interview Sophia Rosenfeld on The Age of Choice February 05, 2025 The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life is a sweeping history of the rise of personal choice, from shopping to voting to family planning. It explores how the simple act of selecting from a menu of options became equated with freedom in much of the modern world鈥攁nd with what consequences for all of us. Read More
