• History

    Medical history

    “The Miracle Cure.” A Brief History of Lobotomies

    By Jeffrey A. Lieberman  February 21, 2023
    Keen On

    Roger Cohen Meditates on Life, Politics, and How to Rebuild Our Age of Undoing

    By Keen On  February 21, 2023
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    John Perkins on How China and the United States Both Seek World Hegemony and What We Can Do About It

    By Keen On  February 21, 2023
    Reading Lists

    Heroes, Victims, and Villains: Essential Books About World War II Women

    By Christopher C. Gorham  February 17, 2023
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    Wojciech Soczewica on Why We Must Never Forget Auschwitz-Birkenau

    By Keen On  February 17, 2023
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    Lynn Cullen on the Woman Who Pioneered the Polio Vaccine and Changed the World

    By Keen On  February 17, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto, the “Town That Efficiency Built”

    By The Maris Review  February 16, 2023
    Super Heroes

    How Two Jewish Kids in 1930s Cleveland Altered the Course of American Pop Culture

    By Helene Stapinski and Bonnie Siegler  February 16, 2023
    American History

    How One Week in Chicago Changed Abraham Lincoln’s Life—and the Fate of the United States

    By Edward Achorn  February 16, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Remembering an American Writer: Anthony Walton on James Alan McPherson’s Essays and Legacy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 16, 2023
    Sailing

    How Sailors Predict Climate and Weather on the Open Ocean

    By Elliot Rappaport  February 16, 2023
    Basketball

    How the Golden State Warriors Became the NBA Champions in a Changing World

    By David Hollander  February 15, 2023
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    John Cribb on What Both Republicans and Democrats Can Learn From Abraham Lincoln

    By Keen On  February 15, 2023
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    Adam Brookes on the WWII Race to Save the Treasures of China’s Forbidden City

    By Keen On  February 15, 2023
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    Martin Wolf on Why Capitalism and Democracy Have Fallen Out of Love (And How to Bring Them Back Together)

    By Keen On  February 15, 2023
    Sex

    Lit Hub’s Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

    By Literary Hub  February 14, 2023
    The Internet

    On One of the Most Influential Essays of the 21st Century: Of Snark and Smarm

    By Stephen Marche  February 14, 2023
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    H. Samy Alim Celebrates Hip Hop on its 50th Birthday

    By Keen On  February 14, 2023
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    Sathnam Sanghera on How the West Cannot Escape Its Imperial Past

    By Keen On  February 14, 2023
    Black History

    How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

    By Mark Whitaker  February 13, 2023
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    History Lessons: Robert Kagan on American Foreign Policy and the Collapse of the World Order c. 1900-1941

    By Keen On  February 13, 2023
    Harlem Renaissance

    Why Harlem? Considering the Site of “Civil Rights by Copyright,” 100 Years Later

    By Bo McMillan  February 13, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Dr. Tara A. Bynum Considers Four Canonical Black Writers from the 18th and Early 19th Centuries

    By History of Literature  February 13, 2023
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    Damian Dibben on the Importance of Color in Art, and Why We Should All Visit Venice at Least Once

    By Keen On  February 10, 2023
    Slavery

    Nikole Hannah-Jones on Opposition to the 1619 Project and Teaching Slavery in Schools

    By Nikole Hannah-Jones  February 10, 2023
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