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How Public Shaming Helps Society Maintain Its Norms and Ethical Standards

How Public Shaming Helps Society Maintain Its Norms and Ethical Standards

Cathy O'Neil on Hopi Traditions of the “Shame Clown”

By Cathy O'Neil | March 22, 2022

Karen Joy Fowler on Decentering John Wilkes Booth in a Novel About His Family

Karen Joy Fowler on Decentering John Wilkes Booth in a Novel About His Family

The Author of Booth Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | March 22, 2022

How Ancient Rome’s Descent Into Autocracy Mirrors the Fragility of Our Own Political Systems

How Ancient Rome’s Descent Into Autocracy Mirrors the Fragility of Our Own Political Systems

Barry Strauss on the Rise of Octavian, Julius Caesar’s Imperial Successor

By Barry Strauss | March 22, 2022

The Subtle Authoritarianism of Southeast Asia’s Wealthiest City-State

The Subtle Authoritarianism of Southeast Asia’s Wealthiest City-State

Jeevan Vasagar on Singapore’s Ongoing Suppression Dissent

By Jeevan Vasagar | March 21, 2022

Researchers are mapping the effects of climate change on Walden Pond—with help from Thoreau.

Researchers are mapping the effects of climate change on Walden Pond—with help from Thoreau.

By Walker Caplan | March 18, 2022

The Essential Value—and Deep Cost—of Reporting From War

The Essential Value—and Deep Cost—of Reporting From War

Dan O’Brien on His Friendship With Conflict Journalist Paul Watson

By Dan O'Brien | March 18, 2022

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By Michele Herman | March 18, 2022

“War shortens the distance from person to person, from birth to death.” New Work by Ukrainian Poet Halyna Kruk

By Literary Hub | March 17, 2022

What an Ecofeminist Pioneer Can Teach Us Today

By Myriam Bahaffou and Julie Gorecki | March 17, 2022

Scott Anderson on What Russia’s Wars in Chechnya Tell Us about the Invasion of Ukraine

Scott Anderson on What Russia’s Wars in Chechnya Tell Us about the Invasion of Ukraine

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 17, 2022

Telling the Stories of the Wrongly Incarcerated

Telling the Stories of the Wrongly Incarcerated

Phoebe Zerwick Recommends Books About Justice and the Carceral State

By Phoebe Zerwick | March 17, 2022

On the Second Battle of Kiev, 1943

On the Second Battle of Kiev, 1943

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | March 17, 2022

How the North Beat the South, Morally and Economically

How the North Beat the South, Morally and Economically

Roger Lowenstein on the Dueling Economies Behind The Civil War

By Roger Lowenstein | March 16, 2022

Why Bad Men Join Motorcycle Gangs and How To Take Them Down

Why Bad Men Join Motorcycle Gangs and How To Take Them Down

Ken Croke in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | March 16, 2022

Diana Abu-Jaber: “Among the Bedouins, a Knife is Never Just a Knife.”

Diana Abu-Jaber: “Among the Bedouins, a Knife is Never Just a Knife.”

On Nourishment, Betrayal, and Finding Family Histories

By Diana Abu-Jaber | March 15, 2022

Maya Lee on the Unique and Fraught Position Her Mother Held During the Holocaust

Maya Lee on the Unique and Fraught Position Her Mother Held During the Holocaust

“You could lose your own life to a bored or disgruntled guard.”

By Magda Hellinger and Maya Lee with David Brewster | March 15, 2022

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