Interview Democracy鈥檚 dilemmas: Ewa Atanassow in conversation with Schuyler Curriden November 15, 2022 How can today鈥檚 liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning faith in constitutional democracy? Read More
Interview Ideas and inspiration from 91桃色 fellows November 14, 2022 In July 2022, 91桃色 welcomed its second-year Publishing Fellows. The Publishing Fellowship was created in 2021 to聽address a lack of diverse representation across the publishing industry, as part of a Press-wide聽Equity and Inclusion strategic initiative聽launched in 2018. Read More
Video Celebrating 100 audiobooks November 14, 2022 In 2018, the 91桃色 team launched the first university press audiobook program, 91桃色 Audio. Four years and almost a thousand hours of published audiobooks later, we are thrilled to be publishing our hundredth audiobook. Read More
Interview Richard S. Ellis on When Galaxies Were Born November 10, 2022 Astronomers are like time travelers, scanning the night sky for the outermost galaxies that first came into being when our universe was a mere fraction of its present age. Read More
Essay Prague鈥檚 infinite shades of gray November 10, 2022 Interwar Prague was an avant-garde hotbed, but the first exhibition of Czech art to take place at New York鈥檚 Museum of Modern Art was not devoted to Czech modernism. Read More
Podcast Complicit November 08, 2022 It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethical or criminal behavior. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Chris Bail on polarization and the pandemic November 07, 2022 In this video Chris Bail, PUP Speaks speaker and author of Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing, demonstrates how the cracks that showed in our societies during the COVID-19 pandemic threaten to split us in two. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Viral Justice November 04, 2022 Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of聽COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Read More
Interview Alex Zakaras on The Roots of American Individualism November 04, 2022 Individualism is a defining feature of American public life. Its influence is pervasive today, with liberals and conservatives alike promising to expand personal freedom and defend individual rights against unwanted intrusion, be it from big government, big corporations, or intolerant majorities.聽 Read More
Essay Gurus of degrowth: Say hello to the ancient Cynics November 03, 2022 Mark Twain once quipped 鈥淗eaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.鈥� Read More
Essay Listening to the tree of life November 02, 2022 Listening to nature is an ancient art. But for most of human history, our ability to listen to other species was constrained. Humans are unable to hear many of the myriad sounds made by other species. Read More
Essay Can we accept other people鈥檚 relationships with the environment? November 02, 2022 In the acclaimed television series, The Good Place, the main characters come to learn that in over 500 years, no one has avoided going to 鈥渢he bad place鈥� after their death. Read More
Podcast How to Say No November 01, 2022 The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society鈥檚 material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of politeness and thundered 鈥淣o!鈥� Diogenes, the most famous Cynic, wasn鈥檛 shy about literally extending his middle finger to the world, expressing mock surprise that 鈥渕ost people go crazy over a finger.鈥� Read More
Essay Playing in the gray October 28, 2022 How do global elites capitalize on risky frontier markets? They master the art of playing in the gray. Read More
Essay How Americans鈥� priorities explain abortion politics October 28, 2022 In only a few months, the Supreme Court鈥檚 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women鈥檚 Health Organization鈥攊n which the Court majority invalidated the constitutional right to an abortion established almost 50 years ago鈥攈as scrambled the political landscape. Read More
