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From Surfboards to Seed Corn: How Society Creates Trends

From Surfboards to Seed Corn: How Society Creates Trends

W. David Marx On the Subtle Social Nuances of Technological Innovation

By W. David Marx | August 30, 2022

What Can Bruce Lee Tell Us About Our Contemporary World?

What Can Bruce Lee Tell Us About Our Contemporary World?

Daryl Joji Maeda on How the Historical and Political Forces of the Late 20th Century Made a Cinematic Icon

By Daryl Joji Maeda | August 26, 2022

30 years ago tonight, Sarajevo's National Library was burned to the ground.

30 years ago tonight, Sarajevo's National Library was burned to the ground.

By Dan Sheehan | August 25, 2022

On How We Remember the Holocaust

On How We Remember the Holocaust

Linda Kinstler in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 25, 2022

Phong Nguyen on Vietnam Then, Taiwan Today, and China’s Interests Abroad

Phong Nguyen on Vietnam Then, Taiwan Today, and China’s Interests Abroad

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 25, 2022

The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo

The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | August 25, 2022

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Aja Monet on Robin D.G. Kelley and the Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation

By Aja Monet | August 24, 2022

Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the 20th-Century World

By Keen On | August 24, 2022

Kate Chopin threw her most famous character under the bus in this ironic rebuttal to critics.

By Corinne Segal | August 23, 2022

What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

Dan Bouk on “Madam and the Census Man” and the Untold Stories Behind Census Records

By Dan Bouk | August 23, 2022

The History of Riga’s “Little Nuremberg” Trial

The History of Riga’s “Little Nuremberg” Trial

Linda Kinstler on Paranoia and Justice in Soviet-Occupied Latvia

By Linda Kinstler | August 23, 2022

A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

Rasheed Newson on Sexually Accommodating Spaces as Community Hubs, and the Moral Panics That Destroyed Them

By Rasheed Newson | August 23, 2022

Marguerite Duras on Writing the Screenplay for Alain Resnais’s <em>Hiroshima Mon Amour</em>

Marguerite Duras on Writing the Screenplay for Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour

“We’re afraid. But ultimately, isn’t that necessary from time to time? Especially in film?”

By Marguerite Duras | August 22, 2022

How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy

How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy

Laura Mason in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | August 22, 2022

What the Slenderman Stabbing Tragedy Tells Us About the State of Mental Illness and Criminal Justice in America

What the Slenderman Stabbing Tragedy Tells Us About the State of Mental Illness and Criminal Justice in America

Kathleen Hale in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | August 22, 2022

How an Unlucky Texas Fisherman Stumbled Upon an Environmental Catastrophe

How an Unlucky Texas Fisherman Stumbled Upon an Environmental Catastrophe

Kirk Wallace Johnson on the Dark Side of America’s Gulf Coast

By Kirk Wallace Johnson | August 22, 2022

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