We All Know Columbus Didn’t Discover America—So How Did He Become a Symbol of Its Founding?

We All Know Columbus Didn’t Discover America—So How Did He Become a Symbol of Its Founding?

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on the Erasure of This Continent’s Original Inhabitants

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | August 25, 2021

How Does the Biological Heart Have to Do With Our Emotions?

How Does the Biological Heart Have to Do With Our Emotions?

Reinhard Friedl on the Relationship Between the Body’s Mechanisms and Its Feelings

By Reinhard Friedl | August 25, 2021

The Life and Death of Robert Capa: How a Woman Invented the First Great War Photographer

The Life and Death of Robert Capa: How a Woman Invented the First Great War Photographer

Giles Tremlett on Gerda Taro, Who Documented the Spanish Civil War and Died in Action

By Giles Tremlett | August 25, 2021

The Beginning of the End: Who Do We Become in the Face of a Parent’s Death?

The Beginning of the End: Who Do We Become in the Face of a Parent’s Death?

Kat Chow on Losing Her Mother, Memory, and Writing About Illness

By Kat Chow | August 25, 2021

Why is Yves Saint Laurent’s “Sardine Dress” So Compelling?

Why is Yves Saint Laurent’s “Sardine Dress” So Compelling?

Alison Hawthorne Deming on the Art and Inspiration of an Iconic Dress

By Alison Hawthorne Deming | August 25, 2021

Casey Schwartz on Adderall and the Modern Landscape of Attention

Casey Schwartz on Adderall and the Modern Landscape of Attention

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 25, 2021

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I Bark, Therefore I Am: Of Consciousness and Robot Dogs

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Meghan O’Gieblyn Considers Issues of Mind, Matter, and Soul

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JRR Tolkien Invented the Term “Eucatastrophe.” What Does It Mean?

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Jonathan Walker on the Consequences of Christian Narrative

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On the Racism of Andrew Johnson, Self-Identified White Ally and “Your Moses”

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Robert S. Levine Considers the White-Savior Complex of the 17th President

By Robert S. Levine | August 24, 2021

Why So Many Survivors Choose Not to Report Sexual Assault to the Police

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