What is a Philosopher? A Laughingstock, an Absentminded Buffoon?

What is a Philosopher? A Laughingstock, an Absentminded Buffoon?

Simon Critchley is Unafraid to Ask the Hard Questions

By Simon Critchley | April 27, 2021

Would Taxing the Rich Protect Democracy?

Would Taxing the Rich Protect Democracy?

David Stasavage in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 27, 2021

Life Beyond Act One: Why We Need More Stories About Older Women

Life Beyond Act One: Why We Need More Stories About Older Women

Mary Sharratt on Moving Beyond Coming of Age

By Mary Sharratt | April 27, 2021

What the fresh hell? Magnum is releasing a Dante-themed ice cream bar.

What the fresh hell? Magnum is releasing a Dante-themed ice cream bar.

By Walker Caplan | April 26, 2021

The Endangered Albatross: Elusive, Beautiful, Ancient

The Endangered Albatross: Elusive, Beautiful, Ancient

Allison Cobb on the Ever-Present Environmental Threat of Plastic

By Allison Cobb | April 26, 2021

The Brief, Joyous Life of the Sunwise Turn Bookshop

The Brief, Joyous Life of the Sunwise Turn Bookshop

How Two Women Created a Space For Modernism to Thrive

By Joanne O'Sullivan | April 26, 2021

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A Secret Feminist History of the Oxford English Dictionary

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Chillnobyl: Throwing a Rave Deep in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone

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Everything you need to know about this week’s manufactured Jane Austen controversy.

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Reading the History of Manhattan in Its Diagrams, Maps, and Graphics

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Fatima Bhutto on Channeling the Fearlessness of Malcolm X

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Steve Ballinger on Removing the Remains of War, Nearly 80<br> Years On

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How the Sinister Study of Eugenics Legitimized Forced Sterilization in the United States

How the Sinister Study of Eugenics Legitimized Forced Sterilization in the United States

Audrey Clare Farley on the Scientists Who Weaponized Biology

By Audrey Clare Farley | April 22, 2021

Mass Graves and 21st-Century Slavery: On the Dangerous Plight of Migrants

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Emmanuel Mbolela Considers Our Ongoing Global Humanitarian Crisis

By Emmanuel Mbolela | April 22, 2021

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