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Stop Obsessing: A Reading List for Finding Joy in Irrelevance

Stop Obsessing: A Reading List for Finding Joy in Irrelevance

Amy Leach on the Freedom of Lightening Up

By Amy Leach | November 16, 2021

Lincoln’s Dictatorship: How the President Broke the Constitutional Compact in Order to Save It

Lincoln’s Dictatorship: How the President Broke the Constitutional Compact in Order to Save It

Noah Feldman on the Rupture That Predated the Emancipation Proclamation

By Noah Feldman | November 15, 2021

The Very Real Correlation Between Bilingualism and Advanced Executive Function

The Very Real Correlation Between Bilingualism and Advanced Executive Function

Masha Rumer on the Continued Stigma of Speaking Other Languages in America, Despite the Lifelong Benefits

By Masha Rumer | November 15, 2021

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder on the Migration of Trees and the Impact on Human and Ecological Communities

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder on the Migration of Trees and the Impact on Human and Ecological Communities

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | November 15, 2021

Dostoevsky totally did NaNoWriMo.

Dostoevsky totally did NaNoWriMo.

By Walker Caplan | November 12, 2021

<em>The Dawn of Everything</em> Is Not a Book About the Origins of Inequality

The Dawn of Everything Is Not a Book About the Origins of Inequality

Or, Why Rousseau and Hobbes Can Suck It

By David Graeber and David Wengrow | November 12, 2021

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The Forgotten History of the Brutal, Internecine Battles of the American Revolution

By H.W. Brands | November 12, 2021

How Does Britain Maintain Relevance in a Changing World?

By Tim Marshall | November 12, 2021

How Homo erectus Was, and Was Not, Like Modern-Day Humans

By Henry Gee | November 12, 2021

Tom Clavin on the Imprisoned Airmen of Buchenwald

Tom Clavin on the Imprisoned Airmen of Buchenwald

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 12, 2021

The True Story of Pearl Hart, Straight-Shooting, Poetry-Writing Woman Bandit

The True Story of Pearl Hart, Straight-Shooting, Poetry-Writing Woman Bandit

John Boessenecker on the Most Infamous Woman in America, Circa 1899

By John Boessenecker | November 11, 2021

Why We Need to Rethink Afro-Indigenous History in the United States

Why We Need to Rethink Afro-Indigenous History in the United States

Kyle T. Mays on Settler Colonialism, the Horrors of the Slave Trade, and the Forming of Black Identity

By Kyle T. Mays | November 11, 2021

On Class Conflict and Public School Boys

On Class Conflict and Public School Boys

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | November 11, 2021

Who will buy the extremely rare concept art book for Jorodowsky’s unproduced <em>Dune</em>?

Who will buy the extremely rare concept art book for Jorodowsky’s unproduced Dune?

By Walker Caplan | November 10, 2021

On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

On Albert Camus’s Legendary Postwar Speech at Columbia University

“The years we have gone through have killed something in us.”

By Robert Meagher | November 10, 2021

How Thoreau Launched the Transcendentalist Experiment in Education

How Thoreau Launched the Transcendentalist Experiment in Education

On Creating a Curriculum Based on Freedom

By Robert A. Gross | November 10, 2021

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