Essay Skill, power, and control in the world of Qatar鈥檚 migrant workers January 27, 2022 On the shoreline of Doha, Qatar, a tacky countdown clock, an enormous fuchsia hourglass cast in acrylic and sponsored by the luxury watchmaker Hublot, flashes the days, minutes, and seconds until the first ball of the 2022 FIFA World Cup is kicked at 6pm on November 21, 2022. Read More
Interview Daniel Jackson on The Essence of Software January 24, 2022 As our dependence on technology increases, the design of software matters more than ever before. Why then is so much software flawed? Why hasn鈥檛 there been a systematic and scalable way to create software that is easy to use, robust, and secure? Read More
Essay The pandemic has flooded the world with grief, but we鈥檙e not in a 鈥榞rief pandemic鈥� January 21, 2022 In a span of less than two years, Covid-19 infections have killed 4.5 million people worldwide. Experts estimate that each person who dies is significantly grieved by nine others. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Rescuing Socrates January 19, 2022 What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Read More
Essay Bambi: The lonely destiny of outsiders January 14, 2022 Today, almost all the animals in the world do not and cannot determine their destinies. It was not always like this. Before the emergence of human beings thousands of years ago, animals were free to roam the planet as they wished. Read More
Interview Meir M. Bar-Asher on Jews and the Qur鈥檃n January 12, 2022 In this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur鈥檃n and later Islamic literature, providing needed context to those passages critical of Jews that are most often invoked to divide Muslims and Jews or to promote Islamophobia. Read More
Podcast The January 6th Capitol insurrection one year on January 06, 2022 Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities across America and around the globe are struggling to understand how so many people are being radicalized and why they are increasingly attracted to violent movements.聽 Read More
Interview Ideas and inspiration from 91桃色鈥檚 inaugural fellows January 06, 2022 In 2021, 91桃色 welcomed its inaugural Publishing Fellows. The Publishing Fellowship was created to address a lack of diverse representation across the publishing industry, as part of a Press-wide Equity and Inclusion strategic initiative launched in 2018. Read More
Podcast 鈥淏ambi鈥� isn鈥檛 about what you think it鈥檚 about January 05, 2022 Most of us think we know the story of Bambi鈥攂ut do we?聽The Original Bambi聽is an all-new, illustrated translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Cynthia Miller-Idriss on the anniversary of the January 6th Capitol attack January 05, 2022 The 2021 attack on the Capitol changed the face of the United States. As the events of January 6th unfolded they were televised across the world, allowing a global audience to experience a violent response to an election held in what was once considered the world鈥檚 foremost democracy. Read More
Interview Book Club Pick: Land of Wondrous Cold January 03, 2022 Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Read More
Reading List Start with a bold idea December 26, 2021 Bold ideas can come in with a roar; other times they enter our minds quietly, percolating there and transforming us. These books, forthcoming in 2022, propose聽radical ideas at various pitches. Read More
Essay Why are habits so sticky? December 23, 2021 Nearly all of us have habits that we would like to get rid of. It might be as innocuous as saying聽鈥渦m鈥澛爐oo often when we speak, or as serious as a pack-a-day smoking habit. Either way, we know that changing our behavior is really difficult, even when the stakes are high. Read More
Essay How does one communicate with colors? December 20, 2021 Architecture is represented not only with lines, figures, and words, but also with colors. What sounds like a truism today鈥攚hen colorful, computer-generated renderings of building projects dominate architectural media鈥攊s in fact a relatively recent phenomenon. Read More
Podcast Billy Wilder on Assignment December 19, 2021 Before Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of iconic films like Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot, he worked as a freelance reporter, first in Vienna and then in Weimar Berlin. Read More
