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How Nelson Mandela Became a Pop-Cultural Icon Through Music

How Nelson Mandela Became a Pop-Cultural Icon Through Music

Jonny Steinberg on Jerry Dammers and How a Famous Concert in the 1980s Brought Mandela New Fame

By Jonny Steinberg | May 11, 2023

Michael Walzer on What Progressives Can Learn From Liberal Nationalists Like Thomas Jefferson and Giuseppe Mazzini

Michael Walzer on What Progressives Can Learn From Liberal Nationalists Like Thomas Jefferson and Giuseppe Mazzini

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 11, 2023

Biographer discovers that Martin Luther King’s harshest criticism of Malcolm X was made up.

Biographer discovers that Martin Luther King’s harshest criticism of Malcolm X was made up.

By Jonny Diamond | May 10, 2023

How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

Jennifer Lunden on Alice James, Descartes' Destructive Influence on Medicine, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and More

By Jennifer Lunden | May 10, 2023

On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

C. E. McGill Considers Frankenstein’s Monster and Gothic Sci-Fi

By C.E. McGill | May 10, 2023

Reading Beyond London’s WWII “Blitz Spirit”

Reading Beyond London’s WWII “Blitz Spirit”

Jo Baker Recommends Jill Paton Walsh, Graham Greene, and More

By Jo Baker | May 10, 2023

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Viduy, or, Listening to Palestinians With My Mother

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The Advanced Guard of Tourism: Tracing a Direct Line Between the Lonely Planet Travel Guides and The Beach

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What I Learned Revising My First Novel After Publication

By Lisa Harding | May 5, 2023

Paul Kix on the Ten Weeks in 1963 That Changed America

Paul Kix on the Ten Weeks in 1963 That Changed America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 4, 2023

Michael Lind Explains How the Suppression of Wages and Unions is Destroying America

Michael Lind Explains How the Suppression of Wages and Unions is Destroying America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 4, 2023

Not White But Not (Entirely) Black: On the Complex History of

Not White But Not (Entirely) Black: On the Complex History of "Passing" in America

Herb Harris Explores How His Grandparents' Defied Racial Categorization

By Herb Harris | May 3, 2023

Angeline Boulley on the Need to Get Beyond Trauma in Native Literature

Angeline Boulley on the Need to Get Beyond Trauma in Native Literature

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 3, 2023

Shannon McKenna Schmidt on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Remarkable Heroism During WWII

Shannon McKenna Schmidt on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Remarkable Heroism During WWII

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 3, 2023

The Problematic Myth of Florence Nightingale

The Problematic Myth of Florence Nightingale

Sarah DiGregorio on the Little-Known, Radical History of Nursing and the Danger of Biases in Medicine Today

By Sarah DiGregorio | May 2, 2023

The Storming of Caesars Palace: On 50 Years of Progress Won By Black Mothers

The Storming of Caesars Palace: On 50 Years of Progress Won By Black Mothers

Annaliese Gerlick Revisits Storming Caesars Palace, 18 Years Later

By Annelise Orleck | May 1, 2023

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