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“How Did We Get Stuck?” David Wengrow on Imagining Alternatives To Our Current Systems

“How Did We Get Stuck?” David Wengrow on Imagining Alternatives To Our Current Systems

The Co-Author of The Dawn of Everything on Radio Open Source

By Open Source | December 10, 2021

AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: An Interview with Louis Ozawa

AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: An Interview with Louis Ozawa

Honoring Facing the Mountain and the Best History and Biography Audiobooks

By Behind the Mic | December 9, 2021

Ian Toll on the Lead Up to the Pearl Harbor Attack

Ian Toll on the Lead Up to the Pearl Harbor Attack

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | December 9, 2021

Remember the time Mario Vargas Llosa punched Gabriel García Márquez?

Remember the time Mario Vargas Llosa punched Gabriel García Márquez?

By Walker Caplan | December 8, 2021

Trying to Write About “The Two John Miltons”

Trying to Write About “The Two John Miltons”

Joe Moshenska on the Complicated Lives the Scholar-Poet-Prophet

By Joe Moshenska | December 8, 2021

On the Birth of the Art Instinct

On the Birth of the Art Instinct

John-Paul Stonard Finds Recurring Themes in the First Cave Drawings

By John-Paul Stonard | December 8, 2021

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The Hidden Agency of Women in Medieval Stories, from Beowulf to Guthlac’s Life

By Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry | December 8, 2021

The Dangerous, Dirty Job of Oil Extraction: On the History of Offshore Exploration

By Tabitha Lasley | December 8, 2021

The Scapegoat: Siri Hustvedt on the Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens

By Siri Hustvedt | December 7, 2021

How Do You Kill a God? On Captain Cook’s Ill-Fated Arrival in Hawaii

How Do You Kill a God? On Captain Cook’s Ill-Fated Arrival in Hawaii

Anna Della Subin Considers the Death of the British Explorer and the Perpetuation of Whiteness as Divinity

By Anna Della Subin | December 7, 2021

Amitav Ghosh on the Urgency of De-centering Humans and Re-centering Land

Amitav Ghosh on the Urgency of De-centering Humans and Re-centering Land

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | December 6, 2021

A Brief History of Cheesy Pasta

A Brief History of Cheesy Pasta

Massimo Montanari Explores the Origins of a Culinary Match Made in Heaven

By Massimo Montanari | December 6, 2021

The Boundaries Between Nations Are Blurrier Than We Think

The Boundaries Between Nations Are Blurrier Than We Think

Oliver Uberti and James Cheshire on the Myth of Foundational Nationalism

By James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti | December 6, 2021

Stealing Georgia: Trump Gets Desperate, Kanye’s Publicist Shows Up on Ruby Freeman’s Doorstep, and... 28,000 Missing Votes?

Stealing Georgia: Trump Gets Desperate, Kanye’s Publicist Shows Up on Ruby Freeman’s Doorstep, and... 28,000 Missing Votes?

EXCLUSIVE: What The Steal Reveals About GOP Efforts to Sow Chaos in the 2020 Election

By Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague | December 4, 2021

Who Does the Supreme Court Belong to Now?

Who Does the Supreme Court Belong to Now?

Linda Greenhouse on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | December 2, 2021

On the Little-Known Archives Keeping Civil Rights Activists’ Stories Alive

On the Little-Known Archives Keeping Civil Rights Activists’ Stories Alive

Suzanne Cope on the Importance of Keeping History Alive

By Suzanne Cope | December 1, 2021

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