Interview Kyle Harper on Plagues upon the Earth October 06, 2021 Plagues upon the Earth聽is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity鈥檚 uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by technological progress. Read More
Essay A look inside City of Dreams October 03, 2021 On April 10, 1962, amid ceremony and celebration, Dodger Stadium, major league baseball鈥檚 modern showpiece, opened in Los Angeles, California. Read More
Essay The fall of Kabul and the new decolonization September 28, 2021 The collapse of the Western-backed regime in Afghanistan in August 2021, and the subsequent images of the chaotic retreat of the American-led forces from Kabul Airport鈥攇randiosely named after the former President of a now-defunct regime, Hamid Karzai鈥攆its easily into the photo album of contemporary history. Read More
Essay The three ages of India鈥檚 democracy August 26, 2021 The comparative study of democracies has long since determined that this type of regime warrants qualification. While liberal democracy remains an ideal form, many 鈥渉ybrids鈥� that blend this archetype with other political genres have long existed. Read More
Interview Tonio Andrade on The Last Embassy July 12, 2021 George Macartney鈥檚 disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Read More
Essay A look inside A World Divided June 28, 2021 Hoi An is a lovely Vietnamese town, one that managed to survive, largely unscathed, the wars that ravaged the country in the twentieth century. Read More
Essay The fall of Masada June 24, 2021 Two thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children reportedly chose to take their own lives rather than suffer enslavement or death at the hands of the Roman army. Read More
Essay A look inside Eva Palmer Sikelianos June 15, 2021 I was myself introduced to Eva Palmer Sikelianos while leafing through books and magazines about Greece in my parents鈥� library in the 1960s and 1970s. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Eva Palmer Sikelianos June 08, 2021 Listen to an audio sample from Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins, a new book about the American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Read More
Interview By Design | An Infinite History June 04, 2021 Emma Rothschild鈥檚 An Infinite History is a history of infinite possibilities. The book traces the fortunes of a single family and its descendants across space and time, beginning with an ordinary, illiterate woman鈥擬arie Aymard鈥攊n an ordinary, provincial part of France鈥擜ngoul锚me鈥攊n a time that was drifting towards political revolution and economic transformation. Read More
Essay From equal rights to full rights May 18, 2021 The Equal Rights Amendment, introduced in 1923, has resurfaced in 2021 after a long sleep.聽Whether it becomes part of the US Constitution is anyone鈥檚 guess, as is the practical effect of such a change given the conservative tilt of the Supreme Court. Read More
Essay Jenny White on the graphic novel and the complicated roots of political violence May 10, 2021 I first arrived in Turkey as a young woman in 1975 to study at Ankara鈥檚 Hacettepe University, unaware that Turkey was experiencing a low-level civil war. Read More
Podcast American feminists and the global fight for democratic equality May 03, 2021 Reclaiming social democracy as one of the central threads of American feminism, Dorothy Sue Cobble offers a bold rewriting of twentieth-century feminist history and documents how forces, peoples, and ideas worldwide shaped American politics. Read More
Essay Turkish Kaleidoscope musical playlist April 28, 2021 The Turkish Kaleidoscope Musical Playlist is a kaleidoscopic view of the musical backdrop from 1970s Turkey. It explores the music scene of the period, from Anatolian rock & pop to modern & traditional folk music (t眉rk眉) and arabesk. Read More
Video Turkish Kaleidoscope book trailer April 21, 2021 Turkish Kaleidoscope聽is a聽powerful graphic novel that traces Turkey鈥檚 descent into political violence in the 1970s through the experiences of four students on opposing sides of the conflict. Read More
