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
Reading List Exploring Black Experiences February 01, 2025 First proposed by Black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in 1969,聽Black History Month, celebrated annually in February in the US, is an opportunity to celebrate Black voices, achievements, and to聽reflect on the central role of African Americans throughout US history. 91桃色 is proud to publish books that engage with serious issues and ideas relating to Black experiences. Read More
Essay Once upon a time: Hollywood meets Bob Dylan at Newport January 29, 2025 鈥淎 Complete Unknown鈥� has attracted outsized media attention. As someone who has written a bit about Dylan here and there, I can attest that not a single day has gone by in the past month without me receiving a message: What did you think? Read More
Interview Jaap de Roode on Doctors by Nature January 24, 2025 The use of medicinal drugs is often viewed as a uniquely human exercise. In Doctors by Nature, however, Jaap de Roode shows that many non-human animals also practice medicine. Read More
Interview Ra煤l Rojas on The Language of Mathematics January 23, 2025 The history of language and mathematical notation is filled with chance and serendipity. I want readers to see mathematics as a living organism, a living subject, with a history. Mathematics is all about logical truth, and the discipline seems forged in steel. But in fact, mathematics evolved through different phases. Read More
Essay Marx and socialist anti-politics January 23, 2025 Socialists believe in economic emancipation from the domination and unfreedom of capitalism. But realising that monumental economic goal invariably and inescapably requires socialists to think about what political means, if any, might bring it about. Read More
Interview Patricia Owens on Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men January 22, 2025 The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Balanced Brain January 20, 2025 There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific developments that are revolutionising the way we think about mental health, showing why and how events鈥攁nd treatments鈥攃an affect people in such different ways. Read More
Interview Yanni Kotsonis on The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism January 17, 2025 Yanni Kotsonis discusses his new book, a sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece. Read More
