• History

    Keen On

    Enabling a Conversation Between Rural and Urban America

    By Keen On  July 18, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Race to Make Hollywood’s First Atomic Bomb Movie

    By Greg Mitchell  July 17, 2023
    Keen On

    Maggie O’Farrell on Childhood, Art, Money, and Marriage in 16th-Century Florence

    By Keen On  July 17, 2023
    Keen On

    What America’s Current Drug Binge Reveals About the Post Neoliberal 2020s

    By Keen On  July 17, 2023
    On Teaching

    On Trying to Teach Brian Doyle’s “Leap” to the Post-9/11 Generation

    By Steve Edwards  July 14, 2023
    Politics

    How Single-Family Zoning Laws Reinforce Existing Race and Class Divisions

    By Richard D. Kahlenberg  July 14, 2023
    Refugees

    On the Refugee Stories That Begin Where Casablanca Ends

    By Tabea Alexa Linhard  July 14, 2023
    Cities

    How the 9/11 Attacks Sparked a Never-Ending Wave of Gentrification

    By Jesse Rifkin  July 13, 2023
    Rock and Roll

    More Than Just A Pretty Face: On the Multifaceted Marianne Faithfull

    By Elizabeth Winder  July 13, 2023
    On Race

    Why Regency Romance Needs to Give Its Characters of Color Greater Agency

    By Amita Murray  July 13, 2023
    Keen On

    Nikhil Krishnan on Why Oxford’s Early 20th-Century Philosophers Still Matter

    By Keen On  July 13, 2023
    Revolution

    On the Hip-Hop That Powers Egypt’s Ongoing Revolution

    By Yasmine El Rashidi  July 12, 2023
    Film History

    How Lauren Bacall Secured Her Legendary Love Story with Humphrey Bogart

    By William J. Mann  July 12, 2023
    Wall Street

    Reading the Market: 5 Books That Capture 40 Years of High Finance Culture

    By Andrew Lipstein  July 12, 2023
    Keen On

    Ethan Scheiner on the Courageous Czechoslovakian Hockey Team That Beat the Soviets

    By Keen On  July 12, 2023
    Influences

    How J. Robert Oppenheimer Was Influenced by the Bhagavad Gita

    By Alok A. Khorana  July 10, 2023
    Keen On

    The Warnings of a Holocaust Scholar about Today’s World of the Big Lie

    By Keen On  July 10, 2023
    Keen On

    On the Rise of Women in Latin America’s Drug Cartels

    By Keen On  July 10, 2023
    The Cosmic Library

    On Journey to the West’s Capacity for Reinvention Across Centuries

    By The Cosmic Library   July 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Patrick Dean on America’s “First” Great Naturalist, Mark Catesby

    By Keen On  July 6, 2023
    Criticism

    How Franz Kafka Achieved Cult Status in Cold War America

    By Brian K. Goodman  July 5, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Jake Skeets on Diné Food Traditions and the Relationship Between Food and Community

    By Emergence Magazine  July 5, 2023
    Civil Rights

    Chronicle of a Battle Foretold: How One Town Went to War Over Desegregation

    By Rachel Louise Martin  July 5, 2023
    Read Smart

    Wade Davis on the British Desire to Conquer the “Third Pole,” Mount Everest

    By Read Smart  July 5, 2023
    Cliche

    Before They Were Cliches: On the Origins of 8 Worn Out Idioms

    By Erin McCarthy & the Team at Mental Floss  June 30, 2023
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