Interview ?tienne Ghys on The Football September 15, 2025 ?tienne Ghys takes readers on an entertaining and fact-filled exploration of the mathematical secrets of the most popular spherical object on the planet. Discover why ballistics, friction, and air flow are key to scoring goals—and why the football is a mathematical problem that engineers are still trying to solve. Read More
Podcast A History of the Muslim World September 09, 2025 Michael A. Cook talks with Morteza Hajizadeh about his new book, A History of the Muslim World—a panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muhammad to the birth of the modern era. Read More
Interview David Garland on Law and Order Leviathan September 04, 2025 How could America, that storied land of liberty, be home to mass incarceration, police killings, and racialized criminal justice? In Law and Order Leviathan, David Garland explains how America’s racialized political economy gives rise to this extraordinary outcome. Read More
Podcast The World at First Light September 04, 2025 The cultural epoch we know as the Renaissance emerged at a certain time and in a certain place. Why then and not earlier? Why there and not elsewhere? Read More
Podcast Iran’s Grand Strategy September 03, 2025 Vali Nasr examines Iran’s political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the veneer of theocracy and Islamic ideology, today’s Iran is pursuing a grand strategy aimed at securing the country internally and asserting its place in the region and the world. Read More
Interview David Woodman on The First King of England September 03, 2025 David Woodman blends masterful storytelling with the latest scholarship to paint a multifaceted portrait of ?thelstan (d. 939)—an immensely important but neglected figure. Read More
Podcast On Bullshit in AI September 02, 2025 Named for the famous philosophy treatise by the late Harry Frankfurt, The Truth About Bullshit podcast?seeks to illuminate our world and the pressing issues therein by calling out ‘bullshit’ – a misrepresentation?of truth – in all its forms. Today's speaker is Arvind Narayanan, co-author of AI Snake Oil. Read More
Essay “He’ll never see it”: Why am I the only one who notices the mess? September 02, 2025 When I asked Colleen, a 40-something lawyer and mother of two tweens, to recall any disagreements she’d had with her husband Ted about housework, she identified one major gripe: “He’s not great about self-starting house stuff.” Read More
Interview Bailey Brown on Kindergarten Panic August 18, 2025 Drawing on interviews with more than a hundred parents of elementary school students in New York City, Bailey A. Brown shows how inequality manifests itself as parents and students deal with the uncertainties of the school choice process. Read More
Podcast On Bullshit in Politics August 15, 2025 We’re continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s seminal work, On Bullshit. Our discussion with Michael Patrick Lynch is on bullshit in politics, and how we might think about ways to combat it. Read More
Podcast Long Live Queer Nightlife August 15, 2025 Amin Ghaziani explores a spectacular, if seldom-seen, vision of a queer world shimmering with self-empowerment, inventiveness, and joy. Read More
Essay PUP Life: Eleanor Smith on the work of international rights in publishing August 11, 2025 Follow a day in the life of Eleanor Smith, 91桃色 International Rights Executive. Read More
Interview Mark Vellend on Everything Evolves August 11, 2025 Mark Vellend describes how all observable phenomena in the universe can be understood through two sciences. The first is physics. The second is the science of evolvable systems. Read More
Essay PUP Life: Behind the mic with Danielle D’Orlando July 29, 2025 Danielle D’Orlando recounts a day in the life of being the Curator of Audio at 91桃色. Read More
Video Editing Jung: The making of a critical edition July 28, 2025 Meet the team behind 91桃色’s multi-year publishing project: a 26-volume critical edition of C. G. Jung’s writings, featuring vibrant new translations. Read More
