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Essay Taxing the light of heaven
June 27, 2022
There is no bloodshed in our last story, but it takes us to the heart of the tax-design problem. This is the tale of the window tax, imposed in Britain from 16971 to 1851.
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Essay The sounds of summer
June 21, 2022
During the month of June we celebrate the audiobook and all that it has to offer as we start on our summer reading lists.
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Essay Lightning and animals
June 21, 2022
June 19–25, 2022 is Lightning Safety Awareness Week—an annual public safety campaign of the National Weather Service. The campaign was initiated in 2001 to highlight the fact that lightning has killed more Americans than any other weather factor.
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Podcast When Animals Dream
June 20, 2022
Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on animal sleep with philosophical theories of dreaming.
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Essay It’s time to end systemic racism in faculty hiring
June 20, 2022
The United States is amid a reckoning; it is being judged by its citizens for the world to see. Its institutions and organizations, which have been touting their commitment to racial and ethnic diversity, have been confronted overtly.
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Essay The complex origins, development, and meanings of human rights
June 14, 2022
In 2015, a young girl and her father crossed into the United States from the border with Mexico. Astrid and Arturo, K’iche’ Indians from Guatemala, were fleeing the systematic discrimination and violence their people have suffered for decades.
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Essay Seamus Heaney, pseudonym ‘Incertus’
June 13, 2022
When he first began to publish poems, Seamus Heaney’s chosen pseudonym was ‘Incertus’, meaning ‘not sure of himself’. Characteristically, this was a subtle irony.
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Essay Why I hoard words
June 09, 2022
I took an Old English module on a whim during my first year at university. I came across it at a foreign language informational session, and having never seen or heard Old English before, I was astonished to learn that my own mother tongue could be considered ‘foreign’ to me.
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Video PUP Speaks: Marybeth Gasman on poor faculty diversity
June 08, 2022
The diversification of the academy will not be achieved under within the current academic environment. In this video, PUP Speaks speaker Marybeth Gasman explains what must change for equity to be achieved.
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Interview Book Club Pick: The Golden Rhinoceros
June 08, 2022
From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas.
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Essay Bottom line up front
June 02, 2022
Anyone receiving a bachelor’s or master’s degree has learned how to produce a lengthy paper on a complex topic. But that’s not the only writing skill needed in the workplace.
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Podcast Listen in: Translating Myself and Others
June 01, 2022
Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.
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Essay Life-changing doubt, the Internet, and a crisis of authority
June 01, 2022
Yisroel was an earnestly pious boy growing up Hasidic in Brooklyn, New York. With his side curls grazing his shoulders, thick plastic glasses, and big black velvet yarmulke, he looked like all the other boys in his yeshiva, where he studied the Torah and its commentaries from early in the morning until late at night.
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Podcast The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
May 24, 2022
Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern readers.
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Interview Hal Weitzman on What’s the Matter with Delaware?
May 24, 2022
The legal home to over a million companies, Delaware has more registered businesses than residents. Why do virtually all of the biggest corporations in the United States register there? Why do so many small companies choose to set up in Delaware rather than their home states?
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