Little Free Library has a new map to help places hit hardest by book bans.

Little Free Library has a new map to help places hit hardest by book bans.

By James Folta | September 5, 2024

American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

The Author of “Life and Death of the American Worker” in Conversation with Sarah Viren

By Sarah Viren | September 5, 2024

How the Weimar Republic’s Hyperinflation Transformed Gender Relations in Germany

How the Weimar Republic’s Hyperinflation Transformed Gender Relations in Germany

Harald Jähner on the Economic, Social and Moral Landscape of Weimar Berlin

By Harald Jähner | September 5, 2024

Humanity’s Strangest Language: On the Joys of Translating Math

Humanity’s Strangest Language: On the Joys of Translating Math

Ben Orlin Considers New Ways to Think About—and Have Fun With—Numbers, Variables and Equations

By Ben Orlin | September 5, 2024

Toward a More Generous Pedagogy

Toward a More Generous Pedagogy

Michele Herman on Bringing the Golden Rule to Her Classroom

By Michele Herman | September 5, 2024

Korean Revolutionary Kim San on Moral Courage in the Face of Imperialist Violence

Korean Revolutionary Kim San on Moral Courage in the Face of Imperialist Violence

“To rise above oppression is the glory of man; to submit is his shame.”

By Kim San | September 5, 2024

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Nahil Mohana on the Toll of Living with Endless Displacement and Fear

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Nothing’s Ever Lost: Can AI Help Us Remember Our Departed Loved Ones?

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Bryan VanDyke on Grief, Chatbots and the Power of Human Memory

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Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

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Priyasha Mukhopadhyay Explores the Anglo-Indian Author’s “Departmental Ditties”

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How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

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Iheoma Nwachukwu on Food, Language and the Immigrant Experience

By Iheoma Nwachukwu | September 4, 2024

Fashionably Monochrome Mammals: On the Pleasures of Watching Skunks

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Sharman Apt Russell Encourages Us to Explore the Wild World Waiting in Our Backyards

By Sharman Apt Russell | September 4, 2024

How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

Josephine Quinn on the Myth that Arabic Translations Merely Preserved Greek Literature

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NaNoWriMo defends writing with AI and pisses off the whole internet.

NaNoWriMo defends writing with AI and pisses off the whole internet.

By James Folta | September 3, 2024

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