How a Group of Young Writers and Poets Revolutionized 18th-Century Literature

How a Group of Young Writers and Poets Revolutionized 18th-Century Literature

Andrea Wulf on the Origins and Enduring Legacy of German Romanticism

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Chinelo Okparanta on William Styron’s <em>Confessions of Nat Turner</em> and Writing Across Racial Identities

Chinelo Okparanta on William Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner and Writing Across Racial Identities

“I did wonder about the implications of writing, albeit fictionally and satirically, from a white liberal-minded man’s perspective.”

By Chinelo Okparanta | September 14, 2022

How Black History Saved Me: Peniel E. Joseph on His Path to Scholar-Activism

How Black History Saved Me: Peniel E. Joseph on His Path to Scholar-Activism

Tracing an Education, from W.E.B. Du Bois to Sonia Sanchez

By Peniel E. Joseph | September 14, 2022

How Getting Beyond Neoliberal Economics Can Enable America to Restore Its Greatness

How Getting Beyond Neoliberal Economics Can Enable America to Restore Its Greatness

Thom Hartmann in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 14, 2022

Sarah Kendzior on Trumpland’s Criminal Distortions of American Reality

Sarah Kendzior on Trumpland’s Criminal Distortions of American Reality

“Fighting corruption is not a matter of changing hearts and minds but of accumulating leverage.”

By Sarah Kendzior | September 13, 2022

Was It Ever Possible For One Person To Read Every Book Ever Written (in English)?

Was It Ever Possible For One Person To Read Every Book Ever Written (in English)?

Randall Munroe Provides a Serious Answer To a Very Hypothetical Literary Question

By Randall Munroe | September 13, 2022

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Hemlines and Court Lines: On the Evolution of Women’s Tennis Clothes

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell on Suzanne Lenglen—Tennis Pro and Fashion Icon

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Joma West Talks About Reputation, Hierarchy and Touch, as Told Through Her Dystopian Novel <em>Face</em>

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How Christianity Influenced the Development of Capitalism in Medieval Europe

How Christianity Influenced the Development of Capitalism in Medieval Europe

Jacob Soll on Piety and Profits in the Middle Ages

By Jacob Soll | September 9, 2022

Bad Times Ahead: Even the Futurists Have Given Up on the Future

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Andrew Keen on the End of Optimism

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Draft Riots, Tammany Hall, and a Fire at Barnum’s Museum: The Birth of the NYC Fire Department

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Brian McDonald on the Transition from a Patchwork of Volunteer Departments to a Modern Force

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