Interview Book Club Pick: Making Motherhood Work May 01, 2021 This month鈥檚 Book Club Pick is Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving by Caitlyn Collins. I can鈥檛 think of a more relevant or timely selection for today鈥檚 working parents鈥攅specially after the challenges that we鈥檝e faced in the last year. Read More
Essay Fracking, freedom, and the tragedy of the commons April 21, 2021 Whenever Earth Day rolls around, I think about Cindy Bower, one of the most dedicated environmentalists I know. When I first met her, in 2013, the silver-haired sexagenarian reminisced about carrying signs for the first Earth Day, many Aprils ago, in 1970. Read More
Podcast Can we fix social media? April 16, 2021 We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but, as Chris Bail explains, it functions more like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible. Read More
Interview Chris Bail on Breaking the Social Media Prism April 14, 2021 In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. Read More
Video Breaking the Social Media Prism April 01, 2021 Breaking the Social Media Prism is a revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online鈥攁nd how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media. Read More
Interview Book Club Pick: The Preacher鈥檚 Wife March 04, 2021 This month鈥檚 Book Club Pick is The Preacher鈥檚 Wife by Kate Bowler. In this book, Bowler tells the story of an important new figure that has appeared on the center stage of American evangelicalism鈥攖he celebrity preacher鈥檚 wife. Read More
Essay Translating science: The real work of forensic scientists January 16, 2021 When I tell people about my new book about forensic scientists, Blood, Powder and Residue:聽 How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof, they usually think about popular TV shows such as 鈥淐SI.鈥� 聽But there鈥檚 a gap between the public image of scientists and what scientists do, and this gap matters. Read More
Podcast Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right January 11, 2021 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. Read More
Podcast Sexuality, gender, and race in the Middle Ages December 18, 2020 While the term 鈥渋ntersectionality鈥� was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia.聽Byzantine Intersectionality聽reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around matters of sexual and reproductive consent, bullying and slut-shaming, homosocial and homoerotic relationships, trans and nonbinary gender identities, and the depiction of racialized minorities. Read More
Essay A look inside The Queens Nobody Knows October 30, 2020 Of the sixty-five million or so visitors to New York City every year, the overwhelming majority spend their time only in Manhattan. Because of Brooklyn鈥檚 cachet as a destination, a certain number will also include it in their itinerary. Queens remains something of a mystery to most visitors, a place that they know is part of the city, but that might not be of particular interest. Read More
Essay Reconsidering ethical costs in a pandemic August 03, 2020 As the reality of the pandemic set in, faculty, students, and administrators scrambled to adjust to the sudden switch to online teaching.聽I learned to navigate Zoom with a toddler at home and my students packed up their dorms and prepared to finish their coursework elsewhere. Read More
Interview Eva Rosen on The Voucher Promise July 15, 2020 Housing vouchers are a cornerstone of聽US聽federal housing policy, offering aid to more than two million households. Vouchers are meant to provide the poor with increased choice in the private rental marketplace, enabling access to safe neighborhoods with good schools and higher-paying jobs. But do they? Read More
Interview Ang猫le Christin on Metrics at Work July 05, 2020 During the COVID-19 pandemic more than ever, digital platforms and news websites have become a lifeline for information and interaction for people isolated from face-to-face contact. Ang猫le Christin goes behind the scenes of our screens, analyzing how news production changed as it moved online. Read More
Interview Forrest Stuart on Ballad of the Bullet May 14, 2020 Amid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are developing creative online strategies to make ends meet. Using such social media platforms as YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, they鈥檙e capitalizing on the public鈥檚 fascination with the ghetto and gang violence. Read More
Interview Making motherhood work in the age of COVID-19 May 08, 2020 This Mother鈥檚 Day weekend, Christie Henry, Director of 91桃色 talks聽with聽Caitlyn Collins about 鈥楳aking Motherhood Work鈥� in the age of COVID鈥�19. Read More
