Essay Race and American sculpture December 12, 2024 As monuments representing painful histories are dislodged from their pedestals, it is impossible to obfuscate the relationship between sculpture, race, and power in the United States. Read More
Video In Dialogue: Joseph Luzzi on Dante December 12, 2024 Joseph Luzzi discusses the reception of Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” over time, and lets us in on which is his favorite circle of Hell. Read More
Interview Jennifer Ngaire Heuer on The Soldier’s Reward December 10, 2024 Jennifer Ngaire Heuer discusses why she became interested in love and war in the era of the French Revolution, and shares insights into how people experienced warfare that lasted more than two decades. Read More
Podcast Fragmentary Forms December 10, 2024 While the emergence of collage is frequently placed in the twentieth century when it was a favored medium of modern artists, its earliest beginnings are tied to the invention of paper in China around 200 BCE. Read More
Podcast The Impeachment Power December 04, 2024 In this week’s episode we step into conversation with Keith Whittington about his new book, The Impeachment Power, as we explore the historical and constitutional dimensions of impeachment in American politics. Read More
Podcast Raised to Obey December 03, 2024 Nearly every country today has universal primary education. But why did governments in the West decide to provide education to all children in the first place? Read More
Essay PUP Life: 37 years and nine lives at the Press December 02, 2024 I am often asked how long I have worked at av福利社. When I respond, “37 years,” the reaction is sometimes one of surprise. But in many ways, I have not really worked at the “same place” for all this time as PUP has gone through many evolutions since I first joined in January of 1987. Read More
Interview Camilla Nord on The Balanced Brain December 02, 2024 Camilla Nord discusses what motivated her to write “The Balanced Brain” and why our concept of mental health needs to include both the brain and the wider body. Read More
Podcast Consider the Turkey November 26, 2024 A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today’s specially bred, commercially produced birds. Read More
Essay How the far right moved from the margins November 25, 2024 Despite the fact the global imaginary seems to be saturated with the image of far-right supporters, we have little knowledge on what makes the far-right offer so attractive to a growing number of people. Read More
Interview Brianna Nofil on The Migrant’s Jail November 25, 2024 Brianna Nofil examines how a century of political, ideological, and economic exchange between the U.S. immigration bureaucracy and the criminal justice system gave rise to the world’s largest system of migrant incarceration. Read More
Essay Collage beyond modernism November 24, 2024 What happens when we try and trace a history of collage back across time and space? Read More
Podcast Listen in: And Still the Waters Run November 20, 2024 And Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes. At the turn of the twentieth century, the tribes owned the eastern half of what is now Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forests, coal, and oil. Read More
Essay Peter Singer on Consider the Turkey November 19, 2024 In this Q&A, Peter Singer discusses a few things consumers may want to know about factory farmed turkey heading into the holiday season. Read More
Essay Protecting or punishing women through an ‘empire of purity’? November 13, 2024 Debates over women’s right to bodily autonomy and how the government might best protect women marked the 2024 US presidential race. Read More
